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    Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". The type species is Plateosaurus trossingensis; before...
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    now restricted to Plateosaurus, Yimenosaurus, Euskelosaurus, and Issi. In another study, Yates (2003) sunk Sellosaurus into Plateosaurus (as P. gracilis)...
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    was defined by Sereno, in 1998, as all animals more closely related to Plateosaurus engelhardti than to Saltasaurus loricatus, is a junior synonym of Plateosauridae...
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    Plateosauravus ("grandfather of Plateosaurus") is a basal plateosaurian of uncertain affinities from the Late Triassic Elliot Formation of South Africa...
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    + Plateosaurus) Massospondylidae Yunnanosauridae Plateosauridae (Plateosaurus > Yunnanosaurus, Massospondylus) Sauropoda (Saltasaurus > Plateosaurus) ...
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    species is T. maierfritzorum, originally identified as a specimen of Plateosaurus. The holotype, GPIT-PV-30787, also known as "GPIT IV", is a partial postcranial...
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  • Triassic (Norian) of southern Germany. Although previously synonymized with Plateosaurus, a number of papers published since the early 2000s have cast doubt on...
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    Plateosauridae Euskelosaurus Gresslyosaurus Issi Pachysauriscus Plateosaurus Yimenosaurus...
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    but Galton (1976, 1985, 1986) synonymized it with Plateosaurus based on comparisons with Plateosaurus material from Germany. Moser (2003), however, found...
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    pedal element by Meyer (1855) and a pubic fragment by Huene (1908) of Plateosaurus, and the material was re-identified as a proximal metatarsal belonging...
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    (1861), the pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus, and the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus. In Palaeologica, Meyer proposed a classification of fossil reptiles...
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    The early dinosaurs Herrerasaurus (large), Eoraptor (small) and a Plateosaurus skull, from the Triassic...
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  • Compsognathus, Dimetrodon, Euparkeria, Gorgosaurus, Iguanodon, Monoclonius, Plateosaurus, Struthiomimus, Tanystropheus, Teratosaurus, Trachodon; under Dinosaur...
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  • 15:139-165. Galton, P.M. (1984). "Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. I...
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    Pachyrhinosaurus Pachysauriscus – junior synonym of Plateosaurus Pachysaurops – junior synonym of Plateosaurus "Pachysaurus" – preoccupied name, now known as...
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  • air sacs. Although possible pneumatic indentations have been found in Plateosaurus and Thecodontosaurus, the indentations are very small. One study in 2007...
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  • Umeko were prepped for breeding. She also lives with the Camarasaurus, Plateosaurus, and Thescelosaurus. She gained some online popularity when a picture...
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    Plateosauridae Euskelosaurus Gresslyosaurus Issi Pachysauriscus Plateosaurus Yimenosaurus...
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    under 50 kg (110 lb), even though it is closer to the sauropods than Plateosaurus and Riojasaurus, which were upwards of 1 t (0.98 long tons; 1.1 short...
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    Germany. The specimen was discovered in the rock surrounding a specimen of Plateosaurus that had been collected from a brick pit located in Saxony-Anhalt between...
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    rauisuchid which was an apex predator in parts of Late Triassic North America Plateosaurus was one of the largest of early sauropodomorphs, or "prosauropods", of...
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    "dinosauria" was coined. Another important Plateosaurus find in Franconia was made at Ellingen. Far more famous than Plateosaurus, Placodus and Nothosaurus is the...
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    Plateosauridae Euskelosaurus Gresslyosaurus Issi Pachysauriscus Plateosaurus Yimenosaurus...
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  • Plateosaurus (a prosauropod)...
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    drilling for oil in the North Sea. Analysis indicated that it was a Plateosaurus from 199 to 216 million years ago. This was the deepest dinosaur fossil...
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    Galton in 1985, and defined as Herrerasaurus but not Liliensternus or Plateosaurus by Langer (2004), who used the node-based definition for Herrerasauridae...
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    first been described in 1980 and were originally attributed to the genus Plateosaurus. Previous to the discovery of adult specimens of Mussaurus, the phylogenetic...
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  • Plateosaurus, an early sauropodomorph dinosaur...
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    as all animals more closely related to Saltasaurus loricatus than to Plateosaurus engelhardti. The name Massopoda, from Latin massa 'lump'; from Ancient...
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  • actual fossil material. Among the fossils on display was a skeleton of a Plateosaurus. Also included in the exhibition were a video and TV monitor playing...
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