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Plateosaurus
Taxonomy
Plateosaurus was named by Meyer (1837). It is the type genus of Plateosauridae.
It was assigned to Sauria by Meyer (1837); to Pachypodes by Meyer (1845); to Dinosauria by Pictet (1853); to Harpagosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Teratosauridae by Cope (1871), Cope (1875); to Squamati by Quenstedt (1882); to Megalosaurinidae by Blanckenhorn (1898); to Anchisauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Zanclodontidae by Zittel (1890), Huene (1902); to Theropoda by Broom (1915); to Theropoda by Winkler (1893), Joleaud (1922); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Bakker and Galton (1974); to Anchisauridae by Galton (1973), Carroll (1988); to Sauropodomorpha by Benton (1990), Yates (2003); to Sauropodomorpha by Xing et al. (2015); and to Plateosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Fraas (1913), Huene (1914), Fraas (1914), Huene (1914), Van Hoepen (1920), Lull (1924), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Bonaparte (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1973), Galton (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979), McIntosh (1981), Battail (1986), Padian (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Bandyopadhyay (1999), Galton (2001), Moser (2003), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015), Beccari et al. (2021).
It was assigned to Sauria by Meyer (1837); to Pachypodes by Meyer (1845); to Dinosauria by Pictet (1853); to Harpagosauria by Haeckel (1866); to Teratosauridae by Cope (1871), Cope (1875); to Squamati by Quenstedt (1882); to Megalosaurinidae by Blanckenhorn (1898); to Anchisauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Zanclodontidae by Zittel (1890), Huene (1902); to Theropoda by Broom (1915); to Theropoda by Winkler (1893), Joleaud (1922); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939), Bakker and Galton (1974); to Anchisauridae by Galton (1973), Carroll (1988); to Sauropodomorpha by Benton (1990), Yates (2003); to Sauropodomorpha by Xing et al. (2015); and to Plateosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913), Fraas (1913), Huene (1914), Fraas (1914), Huene (1914), Van Hoepen (1920), Lull (1924), Haughton (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Bonaparte (1969), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1973), Galton (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Heerden (1979), Benton (1979), McIntosh (1981), Battail (1986), Padian (1997), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Bandyopadhyay (1999), Galton (2001), Moser (2003), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Apaldetti et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015), Beccari et al. (2021).