[D] Gresslyosaurus ingens
Describer
Rutimeyer, 1856
Time
Triassic Late Norian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Plateosauridae
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Knollenmergel, Middle Keuper, Niederschönthal, near F:ullinsdorf, near Liestal, Kanton Baselland, Switzerland
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)
Rutimeyer changed the name Dinosaurus gresslyi (Rutimeyer, 1856) in to Gresslyosaurus ingens when he learned that Dinosaurus was preoccupied by the therapsid genus.
Known from the following syntypes: NMB N1584 -85, postcranial remains including sacrum; NMB NB1572 -74 -77, four caudal vertebrae; NMB NB1578 left metacarpal II; NMB NB1576, distal end of left metatarsal; NMB NB1582, proximal end of left tibia; NMB NB53 and 1591, two pedal phalanges.; cast of ungual pahlanx of pedal digit IV (Huene, 1907-08) located by Galton, 1968)
Galton, 2001 found the similarity pf P. ingens to the material from Trossingen anough to refer this species to Plateosaurus longiceps