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Plateosauravus cullingworthi

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Plateosaurus cullingworthi was named by Haughton (1924). Its type specimen is SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350-51, 3603, 3607, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is kopje, Kromme Spruit (zone A/5), which is in a Norian terrestrial horizon in the Elliot Formation of South Africa. It is the type species of Plateosauravus.

It was recombined as Plateosauravus cullingworthi by Huene (1932), Huene (1932), Kuhn (1939), Huene (1940), Haughton and Brink (1954), Charig (1967), Ellenberger (1970), Steel (1970), Yates (2003), Galton et al. (2005), Yates (2007), Upchurch et al. (2007), Barrett (2009), Langer et al. (2010) and Yates et al. (2011); it was synonymized subjectively with Euskelesaurus brownii by Heerden (1979) and Galton (2001); it was synonymized subjectively with Euskelosaurus browni by Galton (2001); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was misspelled as Plateosauravus cullingsworthi by Sciscio et al. (2023).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1924Plateosaurus cullingworthi Haughton p. 407
1932Plateosauravus cullingworthi Huene
1939Plateosauravus cullingworthi Kuhn p. 66
1940Plateosauravus cullingworthi Huene p. 263
1954Plateosauravus cullingworthi Haughton and Brink p. 36
1967Plateosauravus cullingworthi Charig p. 712
1970Plateosauravus cullingworthi Ellenberger p. 346
1970Plateosauravus cullingworthi Steel p. 57
2003Plateosauravus cullingworthi Yates
2005Plateosauravus cullingworthi Galton et al. p. 2
2007Plateosauravus cullingworthi Upchurch et al. p. 76
2007Plateosauravus cullingworthi Yates p. 103
2009Plateosauravus cullingworthi Barrett p. 1032
2010Plateosauravus cullingworthi Langer et al. p. 70
2011Plateosauravus cullingworthi Yates et al. p. 623
2023Plateosauravus cullingsworthi Sciscio et al. p. 3

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Life
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
genusPlateosauravus
speciescullingworthi()

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.

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