Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer 1837 (plateosaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Plateosauridae

Alternative combination: Plataeosaurus engelhardtii

Full reference: H. v. Meyer. 1837. Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet [Communications, sent to Professor Bronn]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1837:314-317

Belongs to Plateosaurus according to C. Peyre de Fabrègues and R. Allain 2020

See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Bardet and Cuny 1993, Bittencourt and Kellner 2009, Blanckenhorn 1898, Cerda et al. 2013, Currie and Padian 1997, Dalla Vecchia 2020, Ezcurra and Apaldetti 2012, Galton 1984, Galton 1985, Galton 2000, Galton 2001, Galton 2001, Galton 2007, Galton and Cluver 1976, Galton and Upchurch 2004, García et al. 2010, Gaudry 1890, Griffin and Nesbitt 2016, Haubold 1997, Huene 1905, Huene 1908, Huene 1914, Irmis and Knoll 2008, Kuhn 1939, Kuhn 1971, Langer and Benton 2006, Langer et al. 2010, McPhee et al. 2015, Meyer 1837, Meyer 1839, Meyer 1855, Moro et al. 2020, Moser 2003, Moser et al. 2006, Nau et al. 2020, Nopcsa 1901, Novas et al. 2011, Otero and Pol 2013, Peyre de Fabrègues et al. 2021, Pictet 1853, Pompeckj 1920, Quenstedt 1861, Quenstedt 1882, Rauhut et al. 2020, Rütimeyer 1856, Schmidt 1938, Sciscio et al. 2023, Seemann 1933, Smith and Pol 2007, Steel 1970, Tatarinov 1964, Veiga et al. 2019, Windolf 1998, Yates 2003, Yates 2005, Yates 2010 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Plateosaurus elizae, Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis, Plateosaurus gracilis, Plateosaurus ingens, Plateosaurus quenstedti, Plateosaurus reinigeri, Plateosaurus trossingensis

Type specimen: UEN 552, a set of vertebrae (Sacrum). Its type locality is Heroldsberg, Feuerletten, which is in a Norian terrestrial conglomerate in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of France (2 collections), Germany (2)

Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence

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