Describer

Huxley, 1867 / Peters, 1862

Time

Triassic Late Carnian Norian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Lower Elliot Formation, Cape Province, Stormberg Mountains, South Africa

Fall Under

Euskelosaurus browni

Info

Genus

Euskelosaurus browni (Huxley, 1866) = Plateosauravus (Huene, 1932)

Euskelosaurus browni > Euskelosaurus africanus (Haughton, 1924) Plateosaurus cullingworthi (Haughton, 1924) Plateosaurus stormbergenis (Broom, 1915) Orinosaurus capensis (Lydekker, 1889) Orosaurus (Huxley, 1867 / Peters, 1862)

Euskelosaurus browni > Euskelosaurus molengraaffi (Hoepen van, 1916) >> Gigantoscelus molengraaffi (Hoepen van, 1916)

Huxley named a fragmentary femur (later determined to be a tibia) the type specimen of Orosaurus (later called Orinosaurus capensis (Lydekker, 1889), still later [Euskelosaurus capensis]). But most paleontologists now consider this specimen to have belonged to another, very large, Euskelosaurus browni individual.