Reptilia - Saurischia - Plateosauridae
Synonyms: Plateosaurus fraasianus Huene 1932, Plateosaurus integer Fraas 1915
Belongs to Plateosaurus according to O. Kuhn 1971
See also Bittencourt and Kellner 2009, Galton 1984, Galton 1985, Galton 2001, Galton 2001, Galton and Upchurch 2004, Gross 1934, Huene 1914, Huene 1915, Huene 1932, Jaekel 1929, Kuhn 1939, Kuhn 1939, Müller-Stoll 1935, Nau et al. 2020, Pompeckj 1920, Prieto-Márquez and Norell 2011, Schmidt 1938, Seemann 1933, Steel 1970, Young 1941, Young 1942 and Young 1946
Sister taxa: Plateosaurus elizae, Plateosaurus engelhardti, Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis, Plateosaurus gracilis, Plateosaurus ingens, Plateosaurus quenstedti, Plateosaurus reinigeri, Plateosaurus trossingensis
Type specimens:
- Plateosaurus longiceps: HMN MB.R.1937 (= XXIV), I, XXV, a skeleton. Its type locality is Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt (bed 18), which is in a Rhaetian floodplain claystone/sandstone in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.
- Plateosaurus fraasianus: SMNS 13200, a skeleton.
- Plateosaurus integer:
Ecology: herbivore
Distribution:
• Triassic of Germany (1 collection), Greenland (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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