[D] Plateosaurus quenstedti
Describer
Huene, 1905
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Knollenmergel, (middle Upper Keuper), \\\\\\\"Jächklinge\\\\\\\", (Brandklinge), Tübingen-Pfrondorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Fall Under
Plateosaurus
Info
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)
Based on one of non-Zanclodon prosauropod specimens (GPIT A) , first referred to Zanclodon laevis. Includes portions of most of the cervical vertebrae, the dorsal vertebral serires (with ribs) as far as dorsal number eight, an articulated sacrum, the complete pelvis, most of the fore - and hindlimbs.
The femur of this species is distally curved, the speciem lacks a skull, the scarum is incomplete and indetermidiate. (Galton, 2001)