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Plateosaurus longiceps

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Plateosaurus longiceps was named by Jaekel (1913) [syntype series]. Its type specimen is HMN MB.R.1937 (= XXIV), I, XXV, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. 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.

It was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus quenstedti by Huene (1932), Schmidt (1938), Kuhn (1939) and Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus engelhardti by Galton (1984); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis by Prieto-Márquez and Norell (2011).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel
1914Plateosaurus longiceps Huene p. 15
1915Plateosaurus integer Fraas
1915Plateosaurus integer Huene p. 3
1915Plateosaurus longiceps Huene p. 3
1920Plateosaurus longiceps Pompeckj p. 109
1929Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel p. 224 fig. 15
1932Plateosaurus fraasianus Huene p. 140
1933Plateosaurus fraasianus Seemann p. 130
1934Plateosaurus longiceps Gross p. 755
1935Plateosaurus fraasianus Müller-Stoll p. 28
1939Plateosaurus fraasianus Kuhn p. 65
1939Plateosaurus longiceps Kuhn p. 282
1941Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 4
1942Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 66
1946Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 8
1970Plateosaurus fraasianus Steel p. 56
1971Plateosaurus longiceps Kuhn p. 16
2001Plateosaurus longiceps Galton p. 35
2004Plateosaurus longiceps Galton and Upchurch p. 235
2009Plateosaurus longiceps Bittencourt and Kellner p. 9
2020Plateosaurus longiceps Nau et al. p. 680

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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
specieslongicepsJaekel 1913

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 longiceps Jaekel 1913
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Invalid names: Plateosaurus fraasianus Huene 1932 [synonym], Plateosaurus integer Fraas 1915 [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, Carroll 1988, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Norian to the top of the Rhaetian or 228.00000 to 201.30000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian228.0 - 208.5Greenland Plateosaurus engelhardti (26998)
Rhaetian208.5 - 201.3Germany (Sachsen-Anhalt) Plateosaurus sp. (type locality: 22684)