Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas 1913 (plateosaurid)

Reptilia - Saurischia - Plateosauridae

Full reference: E. Fraas. 1913. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwäbischen Trias [The newest dinosaur finds in the Swabian Trias]. Naturwissenschaften 1(45):1097-1100

Belongs to Plateosaurus according to O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg 2022

See also Fraas 1913, Fraas 1914, Fraas 1914, Galton 1984, Galton 2001, Galton 2001, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Hennig 1914, Huene 1914, Huene 1915, Kuhn 1939, Kuhn 1971, Lull 1924, Müller-Stoll 1935, Nau et al. 2020, Schmidt 1938, Seemann 1933 and Steel 1970

Sister taxa: Plateosaurus elizae, Plateosaurus engelhardti, Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis, Plateosaurus gracilis, Plateosaurus ingens, Plateosaurus longiceps, Plateosaurus quenstedti, Plateosaurus reinigeri

Type specimen: SMNS 13200, a skeleton. Its type locality is Trossingen - Obere Mühle (lower), which is in a Norian floodplain mudstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

Ecology: herbivore

Distribution:

• Triassic of Germany (2 collections), Switzerland (1)

Total: 3 collections including 4 occurrences

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