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Gresslyosaurus ingens
Taxonomy
Gresslyosaurus ingens was named by Rütimeyer (1856). Its type specimen is NMB BM 1, 10, 24, 53, 530-1, 1521, 1572-74, 1576-78, 1582, 1584-85, 1591, a set of postcrania, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Niederschönthal, Liestal, which is in a Sevatian terrestrial conglomerate in the Knollenmergel Formation of Switzerland.
It was recombined as Dinosaurus gressly by Rütimeyer (1856); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodon suevicus by Lydekker (1888); it was recombined as Dinosaurus gresslyi by Gaudry (1896); it was recombined as Zanclodon ingens by Nopcsa (1901); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus engelhardti by Galton (1985) and Galton (1986); it was recombined as Plateosaurus ingens by Galton (1998), Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Otero and Pol (2013); it was recombined as Plateosaurus gresslyi by Olshevsky (2000); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton (2001), Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004).
It was recombined as Dinosaurus gressly by Rütimeyer (1856); it was synonymized subjectively with Zanclodon suevicus by Lydekker (1888); it was recombined as Dinosaurus gresslyi by Gaudry (1896); it was recombined as Zanclodon ingens by Nopcsa (1901); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus engelhardti by Galton (1985) and Galton (1986); it was recombined as Plateosaurus ingens by Galton (1998), Smith and Pol (2007), Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Novas et al. (2011) and Otero and Pol (2013); it was recombined as Plateosaurus gresslyi by Olshevsky (2000); it was considered a nomen dubium by Galton (2001), Galton (2001) and Galton and Upchurch (2004).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1856 | Dinosaurus gressly Rütimeyer p. 53 |
| 1856 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Rütimeyer p. 64 |
| 1857 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Rütimeyer p. 152 |
| 1861 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Quenstedt p. 512 |
| 1882 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Quenstedt p. 180 |
| 1896 | Dinosaurus gresslyi Gaudry p. 60ff |
| 1901 | Zanclodon ingens Nopcsa p. 198 |
| 1902 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Strübin p. 586 |
| 1905 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Huene p. 348 |
| 1908 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Huene p. 12 |
| 1914 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Huene p. 15 |
| 1915 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Huene p. 24 |
| 1919 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Schalch and Peyer p. 312 |
| 1938 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Schmidt p. 70 |
| 1939 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Kuhn p. 60 |
| 1944 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Peyer p. 260–262 |
| 1965 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Simmons p. 59 |
| 1967 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Charig p. 712 |
| 1970 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Steel p. 53 |
| 1971 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Kuhn p. 16 |
| 1998 | Plateosaurus ingens Galton |
| 2000 | Plateosaurus gresslyi Olshevsky p. 125 |
| 2007 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Naish and Martill p. 496 |
| 2007 | Plateosaurus ingens Smith and Pol p. 670 fig. 7 |
| 2010 | Plateosaurus ingens Yates p. 750 |
| 2011 | Plateosaurus ingens Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13 |
| 2011 | Plateosaurus ingens Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4 |
| 2013 | Plateosaurus ingens Otero and Pol |
| 2020 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Nau et al. p. 680 |
| 2020 | Gresslyosaurus ingens Rauhut et al. p. 4–5 |
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†Gresslyosaurus ingens Rütimeyer 1856
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| References: Norman and Weishampel 1991, Benton 1983, Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||