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Plateosauravidae (disused)
Taxonomy
Plateosauravidae was named by Huene (1929). It is not extant. Its type is Plateosauravus.
It was synonymized subjectively with Melanorosauridae by Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosauridae by Heerden (1979); it was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Olsen and Galton (1984).
It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946); and to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Huene (1948), Kuhn (1966).
It was synonymized subjectively with Melanorosauridae by Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosauridae by Heerden (1979); it was synonymized subjectively with Anchisauridae by Olsen and Galton (1984).
It was assigned to Prosauropoda by Kuhn (1946); and to Prosauropoda by Huene (1929), Huene (1948), Kuhn (1966).
Synonymy list
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Fm. †Plateosauravidae Huene 1929
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Diagnosis
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| F. v. Huene 1948 | Bulky dorsal vertebrae with pleurocoela; semiquadrupedal; trochanter quartus of femur below middle of length. South Africa only. |
Measurements
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| Source: infrao = infraorder, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Hendy et al. 2009, Norman and Weishampel 1991, Carroll 1988 | |||||
Collections
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