Alternative combination: Zanclodon ingens
Full reference: L. Rütimeyer. 1856. [Fossile Reptilienknochen aus dem Keuper] [Fossil reptile bones from the Keuper]. Verhandlungen der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 41:62-64
Belongs to Gresslyosaurus according to O. W. M. Rauhut et al. 2020
See also Apaldetti et al. 2011, Charig 1967, Galton 1985, Galton 1986, Galton 1998, Galton 2001, Galton 2001, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gaudry 1896, Huene 1905, Huene 1908, Huene 1908, Huene 1914, Huene 1914, Huene 1915, Kuhn 1939, Kuhn 1971, Lydekker 1888, Naish and Martill 2007, Nau et al. 2020, Nopcsa 1901, Novas et al. 2011, Olshevsky 2000, Otero and Pol 2013, Peyer 1944, Quenstedt 1861, Quenstedt 1882, Rütimeyer 1856, Rütimeyer 1856, Rütimeyer 1857, Schalch and Peyer 1919, Schmidt 1938, Simmons 1965, Smith and Pol 2007, Steel 1970, Strübin 1902 and Yates 2010
Sister taxa: Gresslyosaurus plieningeri, Gresslyosaurus robustus, Gresslyosaurus torgeri
Type specimen: NMB BM 1, 10, 24, 53, 530-1, 1521, 1572-74, 1576-78, 1582, 1584-85, 1591, a set of postcrania. Its type locality is Niederschönthal, Liestal, which is in a Sevatian terrestrial conglomerate in the Knollenmergel Formation of Switzerland.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore
Distribution: found only at Niederschönthal, Liestal
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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