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Plateosaurus gracilis

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Sellosaurus gracilis was named by Huene (1905). Its type specimen is SMNS 5715, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Heslach quarries, Stuttgart, "Heslacher Wand", which is in a Norian fluvial-lacustrine sandstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

It was recombined as Plateosaurus gracilis by Huene (1926), Müller-Stoll (1935), Schmidt (1938), Berckhemer (1938), Kuhn (1939), Young (1941), Simmons (1965), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Kuhn (1971), Yates (2003), Galton (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013), Bittencourt et al. (2013), McPhee et al. (2015).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1905Sellosaurus gracilis Huene p. 348
1905Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Huene p. 348
1908Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Huene p. 216 figs. Pl. 94, Fig. 1a, b
1909Sellosaurus gracilis Fraas p. xxxiv
1914Sellosaurus gracilis Hennig p. 418
1914Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Huene p. 12
1914Sellosaurus gracilis Huene p. 14
1914Sellosaurus hermannianus Huene p. 156
1915Sellosaurus hermannianus Huene pp. 2-7 figs. 1-3, Pl. 2
1915Sellosaurus gracilis Huene p. 3
1922Sellosaurus hermannianus Case p. 82
1926Plateosaurus gracilis Huene
1935Plateosaurus gracilis Müller-Stoll p. 28
1938Plateosaurus gracilis Berckhemer p. 197
1938Plateosaurus gracilis Schmidt p. 69
1939Plateosaurus gracilis Kuhn p. 64
1941Plateosaurus gracilis Young p. 50
1965Plateosaurus gracilis Simmons p. 59
1967Plateosaurus gracilis Charig p. 712
1970Plateosaurus gracilis Steel p. 56
1971Plateosaurus gracilis Kuhn p. 16
1971Plateosaurus hermannianus Kuhn p. 16
1985Sellosaurus gracilis Galton
1997Sellosaurus gracilis Buffetaut p. 212
1997Sellosaurus gracilis Haubold p. 389
1997Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Haubold p. 389
2001Sellosaurus gracilis Galton pp. 27-28
2003Plateosaurus gracilis Yates p. 331
2004Sellosaurus gracilis Galton and Upchurch p. 236
2007Plateosaurus gracilis Galton p. 518
2007Plateosaurus gracilis Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7
2010Sellosaurus gracilis García et al. p. 422
2010Plateosaurus gracilis Yates p. 749
2011Plateosaurus gracilis Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2011Plateosaurus gracilis Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4
2013Plateosaurus gracilis Bittencourt et al. p. 83
2013Plateosaurus gracilis Otero and Pol
2015Plateosaurus gracilis McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
familyPlateosauridae
genusPlateosaurus
speciesgracilis()

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.

†Plateosaurus gracilis Huene 1905
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Invalid names: Thecodontosaurus hermannianus Huene 1905 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Entire body: yesg
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2005-08-24 13:32:14
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:12:54
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Peczkis 1995, Carroll 1988

Age range: Alaunian or 215.56000 to 212.00000 Ma

Collections (4 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Sellosaurus gracilis (105831)
Norian228.0 - 208.5Germany (Baden-Wurttemberg) Plateosaurus gracilis (68038) Thecodontosaurus hermannianus, Teratosaurus suevicus (type locality: 47785)
Alaunian215.56 - 212.0Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Sellosaurus gracilis (47800)