[D] Plateosaurus [Su] [sG]
Describer
Meyer von, 1837
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
France, Germany, Greenland, Switzerland
Typespecies
Plateosaurus engelhardti
Length
9 meter
Info
Genus - Skull
Plateosaurus (Meyer von, 1837) = Dimodosaurus (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862), Dinosaurus (Rutimeyer, 1856), Gresslyosaurus (Rutimeyer, 1856), Pachysauriscus (Kuhn, 1959), Pachysaurops (Huene, 1961), Pachysaurus (Huene, 1907-1908)
Plateosaurus > Plateosaurus engelhardti (Meyer von, 1837) >> Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis (Huene, 1905), Plateosaurus fraasianus (Huene, 1932), Plateosaurus integer (Fraas vide Huene, 1915), Plateosaurus longiceps (Jaekel, 1914), Plateosaurus plieningeri (Huene, 1907-1908), Plateosaurus reinigeri (Huene, 1907-1908), Plateosaurus trossingensis (Fraas, 1914), Plateosaurus poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862), Dimodosaurus poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862) Dinosaurus gresslyi (Rutimeyer, 1856) Gresslyosaurus ingens (Rutimeyer, 1856) Plateosaurus robustus (Huene, 1907–1908) Huene, 1932, Gresslyosaurus robustus (Huene, 1907-1908) Gresslyosaurus torgeri (Jaekel, 1911) [= Plateosaurus torgeri, (Jaekel, 1911] Pachysaurus ajax (Huene, 1907-1908) Pachysaurus giganteus (Huene, 1932) Pachysaurus magnus (Huene, 1907-1908) Pachysaurus wetzelianus (Huene, 1932) Zanclodon laevis (Plieninger, 1846) Zanclodon plieningeri (Fraas, 1896) Plateosaurus quenstedti (Huene, 1905) > Zanclodon quenstedti (Koken, 1900)
Scores of skeletons dug up amid central Europe\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Late Triassic rocks make this the best known of the larger early dinosaurs. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Flat lizard\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" was one of the prosauropods, which were perhaps the anchestors of the sauropods, the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth. It had a small head, long neck, bulky body, huge thumbclaws, and large, powerful hind legs. Its tail, however, was deep, and the narrow skull larger, stronger, and taller than that of Anchisaurus, with a deeper, snout and more teeth.
A ridge on the lower jaw, below the level of the tooth row, anchored the powerful muscles that worked the lower jaw. This arrangement produced a highly effective bite. Plateosaurus was a anchisaurid-type of the prosauropods.
Casamiquela (1980) briefly described as Plateosaurus sp. a partial skull and three partial skeletons (appr. 3 meters in length) recovered from the Upper Jurassic (Norian) El Tranquilo Formation of southern Argentina. However Galton, 2001 pointed out, a series of intermidiate-sized skeletons links these larger individuals to the extremely small (length appr. 25 to 30 cm) and almost complete holotype skeleton of Mussaurus patagonicus from the same site. M. pattagonicus can not be reffered to Plateosaurus as the third sacral vertebra in the longer skeletons is a dorsosacral, not a caudosacral (as in Plateosaurus).
Meyer von, 1837
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
France, Germany, Greenland, Switzerland
Typespecies
Plateosaurus engelhardti
Length
9 meter
Info
Genus - Skull
Plateosaurus (Meyer von, 1837) = Dimodosaurus (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862), Dinosaurus (Rutimeyer, 1856), Gresslyosaurus (Rutimeyer, 1856), Pachysauriscus (Kuhn, 1959), Pachysaurops (Huene, 1961), Pachysaurus (Huene, 1907-1908)
Plateosaurus > Plateosaurus engelhardti (Meyer von, 1837) >> Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis (Huene, 1905), Plateosaurus fraasianus (Huene, 1932), Plateosaurus integer (Fraas vide Huene, 1915), Plateosaurus longiceps (Jaekel, 1914), Plateosaurus plieningeri (Huene, 1907-1908), Plateosaurus reinigeri (Huene, 1907-1908), Plateosaurus trossingensis (Fraas, 1914), Plateosaurus poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862), Dimodosaurus poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862) Dinosaurus gresslyi (Rutimeyer, 1856) Gresslyosaurus ingens (Rutimeyer, 1856) Plateosaurus robustus (Huene, 1907–1908) Huene, 1932, Gresslyosaurus robustus (Huene, 1907-1908) Gresslyosaurus torgeri (Jaekel, 1911) [= Plateosaurus torgeri, (Jaekel, 1911] Pachysaurus ajax (Huene, 1907-1908) Pachysaurus giganteus (Huene, 1932) Pachysaurus magnus (Huene, 1907-1908) Pachysaurus wetzelianus (Huene, 1932) Zanclodon laevis (Plieninger, 1846) Zanclodon plieningeri (Fraas, 1896) Plateosaurus quenstedti (Huene, 1905) > Zanclodon quenstedti (Koken, 1900)
Scores of skeletons dug up amid central Europe\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Late Triassic rocks make this the best known of the larger early dinosaurs. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Flat lizard\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" was one of the prosauropods, which were perhaps the anchestors of the sauropods, the largest dinosaurs ever to walk the Earth. It had a small head, long neck, bulky body, huge thumbclaws, and large, powerful hind legs. Its tail, however, was deep, and the narrow skull larger, stronger, and taller than that of Anchisaurus, with a deeper, snout and more teeth.
A ridge on the lower jaw, below the level of the tooth row, anchored the powerful muscles that worked the lower jaw. This arrangement produced a highly effective bite. Plateosaurus was a anchisaurid-type of the prosauropods.
Casamiquela (1980) briefly described as Plateosaurus sp. a partial skull and three partial skeletons (appr. 3 meters in length) recovered from the Upper Jurassic (Norian) El Tranquilo Formation of southern Argentina. However Galton, 2001 pointed out, a series of intermidiate-sized skeletons links these larger individuals to the extremely small (length appr. 25 to 30 cm) and almost complete holotype skeleton of Mussaurus patagonicus from the same site. M. pattagonicus can not be reffered to Plateosaurus as the third sacral vertebra in the longer skeletons is a dorsosacral, not a caudosacral (as in Plateosaurus).