[D] Zanclodon plieningeri
Describer
Fraas, 1896
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Knollenmergel, 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)
\\\"Plateosaurus\\\" plieningeri (Fraas, 1896), priviously Zancoldon plieningeri, (Fraas, 1896), originally Smilodon leavis [not considerde dinosaur] (Plieninger, 1846) , the latter subsequently made the type species of the genus Zanclodon [not considerde dinosaur] (Plieninger, 1846), founded on an incomplete left maxilla, SMNS 6045, from the Lettenkohle (Lower Lettenkeuper, Middle Triassic) of Gaildorf, near Schwäbisch Hall. Würtemberg, Germany.
This specimen is an archosaurian taxon of uncertain affinities, having tapering, recurved and unserrated teeth, that do not resemble the teeth of any prosauropod (Galton, 2001) besides that the remains are to old to be dinosaurian as prosauropods are only known from remains dating from the Late Triassic.
Over time other metraial have been refered to Zanclodon laevis, including a partial skeleton collected by Albert Reiniger, from the Middle Keuper, Knollenmergel or Trossingen Formation (Late Triassic) od Degerloch in Stuttgart (this and other specimen subsequently referred by Plieninger, 1857 to [Beledon plieningeri], a species now known to be phytosaurian)