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Plateosauridae (plateosaurid)
Taxonomy
Plateosauridae was named by Marsh (1895). Its type is Plateosaurus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Galton (1971), Galton (1973), Cooper (1981), Olsen and Galton (1984) and Galton (1985).
It was assigned to Saurischia by Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Allophagi by Jaekel (1914); to Theropoda by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1908), von Zittel (1911) and Van Hoepen (1920); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Matthew (1915) and Nopcsa (1923); to Theropoda by Lull (1924); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Carnosauria by Roxo (1937); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946) and Parsch (1963); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Palaeopoda by Van Heerden (1978); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964) and McIntosh (1981); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1926), Huene (1929), Young (1941), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Kuhn (1966), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1976), Galton and Cluver (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Bonaparte (1978), Benton (1979), Ostrom (1980), Dong et al. (1983), Russell (1984), Attridge et al. (1985), Battail (1986), Zhang and Yang (1995) and Galton and Van Heerden (1998); to Prosauropoda by Knoll (2004); to Sauropodomorpha by Leal et al. (2004); to Plateosauria by Tornier (1913), Colbert (1964), Colbert (1970), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Apaldetti et al. (2013); and to Sauropodomorpha by McPhee et al. (2015) and Beccari et al. (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Galton (1971), Galton (1973), Cooper (1981), Olsen and Galton (1984) and Galton (1985).
It was assigned to Saurischia by Arldt (1909) and Huene (1909); to Allophagi by Jaekel (1914); to Theropoda by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1908), von Zittel (1911) and Van Hoepen (1920); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Huene (1914), Matthew (1915) and Nopcsa (1923); to Theropoda by Lull (1924); to Pachypodosauroidea by Nopcsa (1928); to Carnosauria by Roxo (1937); to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946) and Parsch (1963); to Plateosauria by Ellenberger et al. (1970); to Palaeopoda by Reig (1970); to Palaeopoda by Van Heerden (1978); to Prosauropoda by Tatarinov (1964) and McIntosh (1981); to Prosauropoda by Huene (1926), Huene (1929), Young (1941), Huene (1948), Haughton and Brink (1954), Romer (1956), Huene (1959), Kuhn (1966), Romer (1966), Charig (1967), Steel (1970), Swinton (1970), Kuhn (1971), Bonaparte (1971), Benedetto (1973), Galton (1976), Galton and Cluver (1976), Bonaparte (1978), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Bonaparte (1978), Benton (1979), Ostrom (1980), Dong et al. (1983), Russell (1984), Attridge et al. (1985), Battail (1986), Zhang and Yang (1995) and Galton and Van Heerden (1998); to Prosauropoda by Knoll (2004); to Sauropodomorpha by Leal et al. (2004); to Plateosauria by Tornier (1913), Colbert (1964), Colbert (1970), Sereno (1997), Sereno (1998), Sereno (1999), Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004); to Plateosauria by Upchurch et al. (2007), Smith and Pol (2007), Martínez (2009), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Apaldetti et al. (2013); and to Sauropodomorpha by McPhee et al. (2015) and Beccari et al. (2021).
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