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Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy

Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis was named by Huene (1905). Its type specimen is SMNS 6014, a partial skeleton (a partial skull and part of the skeleton including several vertebrae, partial pectoral girdle and forelimb, partial ilium, ischium, and most of the hindlimb ele), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bl. 7220, Erlenberg, which is in a Rhaetian terrestrial marl in the Trossingen Formation of Germany.

It was corrected as Plateosaurus erlenbergensis by Schmidt (1938); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus engelhardti by Galton (1984) and Galton (1985); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton (2001), Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004).

Synonyms

Plateosaurus fraasianus was named by Huene (1932). Its type specimen is SMNS 13200, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus engelhardti by Galton (1984) and Galton (1985); it was synonymized objectively with Plateosaurus trossingensis by Galton (2001) and Galton (2001); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus longiceps by Galton and Upchurch (2004).
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).
Plateosaurus integer was named by Fraas (1915).

It was synonymized objectively with Plateosaurus trossingensis by Galton (2001) and Galton (2001); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus longiceps by Galton and Upchurch (2004).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1905	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Huene p. 348
1908	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Huene p. 42 figs. 17-18, 49
1910	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Versluys p. 203
1912	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Lull p. 678
1913	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Fraas p. 1100
1913	Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel
1914	Plateosaurus erlenbergensis Fraas p. 131
1914	Plateosaurus erlenbergensis Hennig p. 418
1914	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Huene p. 15
1914	Plateosaurus longiceps Huene p. 15
1915	Plateosaurus integer Fraas
1915	Plateosaurus integer Huene p. 3
1915	Plateosaurus longiceps Huene p. 3
1915	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Huene p. 12
1920	Plateosaurus longiceps Pompeckj p. 109
1920	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Van Hoepen p. 102
1929	Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel p. 224 fig. 15
1932	Plateosaurus fraasianus Huene p. 140
1933	Plateosaurus fraasianus Seemann p. 130
1934	Plateosaurus longiceps Gross p. 755
1935	Plateosaurus fraasianus Müller-Stoll p. 28
1938	Plateosaurus erlenbergensis Schmidt p. 125
1939	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Kuhn p. 65
1939	Plateosaurus fraasianus Kuhn p. 65
1939	Plateosaurus longiceps Kuhn p. 282
1941	Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 4
1942	Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 66
1946	Plateosaurus fraasianus Young p. 8
1966	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Young p. 66
1970	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Demathieu p. 153
1970	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Steel p. 56
1970	Plateosaurus fraasianus Steel p. 56
1971	Plateosaurus erlenbergensis Kuhn p. 16
1971	Plateosaurus longiceps Kuhn p. 16
1987	Plateosaurus erlenbergensis Théobald et al. p. 23
2001	Plateosaurus longiceps Galton p. 35
2004	Plateosaurus longiceps Galton and Upchurch p. 235
2009	Plateosaurus longiceps Bittencourt and Kellner p. 9
2011	Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis Prieto-Márquez and Norell p. 49–50
2020	Plateosaurus longiceps Nau et al. p. 680

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	Osteichthyes	()
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Saurischia	()
—	Eusaurischia
—	Sauropodomorpha	(Huene 1932)
family	Plateosauridae
genus	Plateosaurus
species	erlenbergiensis

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 erlenbergiensis Huene 1905

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Invalid names: Plateosaurus longiceps Jaekel 1913 [synonym]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
A. Prieto-Márquez and M. A. Norell 2011	Occipital condyle above level of parasphenoid; basisphenoid with transverse, subvertical lamina extending between basipterygoid processes, with ventrally projecting median process; dorsal end of lacrimal with broad and weakly rugose lateral sheet that covers posterodorsal corner of antorbital fenestra; peglike process projected medially from middle of palatine; and nasal length greater than half the length of skull roof (after Galton [1990; 2001], Yates [2003b], and Galton and Upchurch [2004]).