[D] Sellosaurus gracilis [sG] [T]
Describer
Huene, 1907-1908
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Keuper Formation, Unterer and Mittlerer Stubensandstein, (Lowenstein Formation), Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Length
6.5 meter
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Sellosaurus gracilis (Huene, 1907-1908) = Efraasia diagnostica (Galton, 1973)
Sellosaurus gracilis (Huene, 1907-1908) > Palaeosaurus diagnosticus (Huene, 1932) Sellosaurus fraasi (Huene, 1907-1908) Teratosaurus minor (Huene, 1907-1908 ) Teratosaurus trossingensis (Huene, 1907-1908) Thecodontosaurus diagnosticus (Fraas, 1912) Thecodontosaurus hermannianus (Huene, 1907-1908)
Typespecies: SMNS 5717, incomplete postcranial skeleton, including two dorsal vertebrae, sacrum with right ilium, nearly complete tail ( 44th caudal vertebrae, partly with attached hemal arches), left scapula, pelvis, left femur, proximal end of fibula and phalanges.
\\\"saddle (vertebra) lizard\\\" Named for the form of the vertebrae: \\\"The tail vertebrae differs from those of the upper Keuper plateosaurs...The saddle between the prezygopophyses and the neural spine is much wider and flatter than otherwise.