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Plateosaurus engelhardti

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Plateosaurus engelhardti was named by Meyer (1837) [Lectotype (UEN 552, sacrum) designated by Moser (2003)]. Its type specimen is UEN 552, a set of vertebrae (Sacrum), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Heroldsberg, Feuerletten, which is in a Norian terrestrial conglomerate in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1837Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer p. 317
1839Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer p. 77
1853Plateosaurus engelhardti Pictet p. 475
1855Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer p. 152
1856Plateosaurus engelhardti Rütimeyer p. 63
1861Plateosaurus engelhardti Quenstedt p. 512
1882Plateosaurus engelhardti Quenstedt p. 180
1890Plateosaurus engelhardti Gaudry p. 221
1890Plateosaurus engelhardti Zittel p. 721
1898Plateosaurus engelhardti Blanckenhorn p. 71
1901Plataeosaurus engelhardtii Nopcsa p. 197
1905Plateosaurus engelhardti Huene p. 348
1908Plateosaurus engelhardti Huene p. 68
1914Plateosaurus engelhardti Huene p. 15
1920Plateosaurus engelhardti Pompeckj p. 109
1933Plateosaurus engelhardti Seemann p. 129
1938Plateosaurus engelhardti Schmidt p. 125
1939Plateosaurus engelhardti Kuhn p. 64
1964Plateosaurus engelhardti Tatarinov p. 542
1970Plateosaurus engelhardti Steel p. 55
1971Plateosaurus engelhardti Kuhn p. 16
1976Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton and Cluver pp. 153-154
1984Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton pp. 139-140
1985Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton p. 140
1993Plateosaurus engelhardti Bardet and Cuny p. 11
1997Plateosaurus engelhardti Currie and Padian p. 368
1997Plateosaurus engelhardti Haubold p. 389
1998Plateosaurus engelhardti Windolf p. 1
2000Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton pp. 262-269
2001Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton p. 29
2003Plateosaurus engelhardti Moser
2003Plateosaurus engelhardti Yates p. 332
2004Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton and Upchurch p. 235
2005Plateosaurus engelhardti Yates p. 117
2006Plateosaurus engelhardti Langer and Benton p. 320 fig. 5
2006Plateosaurus engelhardti Moser et al. p. 43
2007Plateosaurus engelhardti Galton p. 518
2007Plateosaurus engelhardti Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7
2008Plateosaurus engelhardti Irmis and Knoll p. 122
2009Plateosaurus engelhardti Bittencourt and Kellner p. 9
2010Plateosaurus engelhardti García et al. p. 422
2010Plateosaurus engelhardti Langer et al. p. 62 fig. 5
2010Plateosaurus engelhardti Yates p. 743
2011Plateosaurus engelhardti Apaldetti et al. p. 4
2011Plateosaurus engelhardti Novas et al. p. 337
2012Plateosaurus engelhardti Ezcurra and Apaldetti p. 159
2013Plateosaurus engelhardti Cerda et al. p. 111
2013Plateosaurus engelhardti Otero and Pol
2015Plateosaurus engelhardti McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12
2016Plateosaurus engelhardti Griffin and Nesbitt p. 1
2019Plateosaurus engelhardti Veiga et al. p. 13
2020Plateosaurus engelhardti Dalla Vecchia p. 609
2020Plateosaurus engelhardti Moro et al.
2020Plateosaurus engelhardti Nau et al. p. 680
2020Plateosaurus engelhardti Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain p. 29
2020Plateosaurus engelhardti Rauhut et al. p. 3
2021Plateosaurus engelhardti Peyre de Fabrègues et al. p. 324
2023Plateosaurus engelhardti Sciscio et al. p. 32

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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
speciesengelhardti

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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Diagnosis
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