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Plateosauravus
Taxonomy
Plateosauravus was named by Huene (1932). Its type is Plateosaurus cullingworthi. It is the type genus of Plateosauravidae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Euskelosaurus by Cooper (1981) and Galton (2001); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004).
It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939); to Saurischia by Huene (1940); to Melanorosauridae by Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Ellenberger (1970) and Steel (1970); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007); to Prosauropoda by Martínez (2009); to Sauropodomorpha by Galton et al. (2005), Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Otero and Pol (2013); and to Plateosauridae by Haughton and Brink (1954) and McPhee et al. (2015).
It was synonymized subjectively with Euskelosaurus by Cooper (1981) and Galton (2001); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004).
It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1939); to Saurischia by Huene (1940); to Melanorosauridae by Romer (1956), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Ellenberger (1970) and Steel (1970); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007); to Prosauropoda by Martínez (2009); to Sauropodomorpha by Galton et al. (2005), Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Otero and Pol (2013); and to Plateosauridae by Haughton and Brink (1954) and McPhee et al. (2015).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1932 | Plateosauravus Huene p. 208 |
| 1939 | Plateosauravus Kuhn p. 66 |
| 1940 | Plateosauravus Huene p. 263 |
| 1954 | Plateosauravus Haughton and Brink p. 4 |
| 1956 | Plateosauravus Romer p. 618 |
| 1966 | Plateosauravus Romer p. 370 |
| 1967 | Plateosauravus Charig p. 712 |
| 1970 | Plateosauravus Ellenberger p. 346 |
| 1970 | Plateosauravus Steel p. 57 |
| 2005 | Plateosauravus Galton et al. p. 2 |
| 2007 | Plateosauravus Smith and Pol p. 668 fig. 7 |
| 2007 | Plateosauravus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3 |
| 2009 | Plateosauravus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22 |
| 2010 | Plateosauravus Yates p. 750 |
| 2011 | Plateosauravus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13 |
| 2011 | Plateosauravus Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4 |
| 2013 | Plateosauravus Otero and Pol |
| 2015 | Plateosauravus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: Norian or 228.00000 to 208.50000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Norian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Plateosaurus cullingworthi (36735) | |
| Norian - Rhaetian | South Africa (Eastern Cape) | Plateosaurus cullingworthi (36738) |