Plateosauravus( "grandfatherofPlateosaurus") is a basalplateosaurianof uncertain affinities from theLate TriassicElliot FormationofSouth Africa.
| Plateosauravus Temporal range:Norian
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Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Plateosauria |
| Genus: | †Plateosauravus von Huene1932 |
| Species: | †P. cullingworthi
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| †Plateosauravus cullingworthi (Sidney Haughton1924 [originallyPlateosaurus])
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Sidney HaughtonnamedPlateosauruscullingworthiin 1924 from a partial skeleton,[1]type specimenSAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350–51, 3603, 3607. The specific name honoured collector T.L. Cullingworth.Friedrich von Huenereassessed it in 1932 as belonging to a new genus, which he namedPlateosauravus.[2]Jacques van Heerdenreassigned it toEuskelosaurusin 1979, and this has been how it was usually considered.[3]However, recent study indicates thatEuskelosaurusis based on undiagnostic material and thus anomen dubium;in his series of sauropodomorph and basal sauropod papers,Adam Yateshas recommended no longer usingEuskelosaurusand has suggested the use ofPlateosauravusinstead.[4][5][6][original research?]
More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in theKruger National Parkafter a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995. These include juvenile individuals.[7]
References
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- ^Haughton, S.H. (1924) "The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series".Annals of the South African Museum12:323-497.
- ^von Huene, F. (1932). "Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte".Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie,series 1:4, 361 pp.
- ^van Heerden, J. (1979). The morphology and taxonomy ofEuskelosaurus(Reptilia: Saurischia; Late Triassic) from South Africa.Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum4(2):23-84.
- ^Yates, A.M. (2003). A new species of the primitive dinosaurThecodontosaurus(Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for the systematics of early dinosaurs.Journal of Systematic Palaeontology1(1):1-42
- ^Yates, A.M., and Kitching, J.W. (2003). The earliest known sauropod dinosaur and the first steps towards sauropod locomotion.Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B270(1525):1753-1758.
- ^Yates, A.M. (2006). Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity ofAliwalia rexGalton.Historical Biology,iFirst article, 1–30.
- ^Durand, J.F. 2001. The oldest juvenile dinosaurs from Africa. African Earth Sciences 33:597–603.
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