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Plateosaurus trossingensis

Reptilia - Plateosauridae

Taxonomy
Plateosaurus trossingensis was named by Fraas (1913). Its type specimen is SMNS 13200, a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Trossingen - Obere Mühle (lower), which is in a Norian floodplain mudstone in the Löwenstein Formation of Germany.

It was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus integer by Huene (1915) and Fraas (1915); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus fraasianus by Seemann (1933), Müller-Stoll (1935), Kuhn (1939), Steel (1970); it was synonymized subjectively with Plateosaurus longiceps by Galton (2001), Galton and Upchurch (2004); it was considered a nomen nudum by Galton (1984).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1913Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas p. 1100
1914Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas p. lx
1914Plateosaurus trossingensis Hennig p. 418
1914Plateosaurus trossingensis Huene p. 15
1924Plateosaurus trossingensis Lull p. 259
1938Plateosaurus trossingensis Schmidt p. 125
1971Plateosaurus trossingensis Kuhn p. 16
2020Plateosaurus trossingensis Nau et al. p. 680
2022Plateosaurus trossingensis Regalado Fernández and Werneburg p. 813

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
familyPlateosauridae
genusPlateosaurus
speciestrossingensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Entire body: yesg
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Diet: herbivoreg
Created: 2005-08-24 13:32:14
Modified: 2009-01-03 23:12:54
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Peczkis 1995

Age range: Norian or 227.30000 to 205.70000 Ma

Collections (2 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Norian227.3 - 205.7Switzerland (Aargau) Plateosaurus sp. (22680)
Norian227.3 - 205.7Germany (Baden-Württemberg) Plateosaurus trossingensis, Plateosaurus sp., Plateosaurus quenstedti (type locality: 22683)