Genre
Valide Éteint

Plateosaurus

Meyer 1837

Plateosaurus est un genre éteint de dinosaures sauropodomorphes herbivores basaux, de la famille des Plateosauridae, et ayant vécu au Trias supérieur dans ce qui est maintenant l'Europe. Il est apparu il y a environ 214 millions d'années.

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
36
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Terrestre
Plateosaurus
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Plateosaurus engelhardti skeletons "Skelett 2" on exhibit at the museum of the Institute for Geosciences of the Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany. "Skelett 2" is a composite from 2 individuals from Trossingen, Germany. Mounts created under the direction of Friedrich von Huene. © FunkMonk · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia

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PBDB Wikipedia
Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Saurischia Clade non classé
Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé
Plateosauridae Famille
Plateosaurus Genre
Sites de découverte 36 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇩🇪 Allemagne
22
🇫🇷 France
6
🇨🇭 Suisse
3
🇿🇦 Afrique du Sud
1
🇦🇷 Argentine
1
🇬🇱 Groenland
1
🇬🇧 Royaume-Uni
1
🇴🇗 O2
1
Formations géologiques
Löwenstein
10
Trossingen
8
Klettgau
3
Marnes irisées supérieures
2
Feuerletten
1
Elliot
1
Laguna Colorada
1
Marnes de Châlins
1
Ørsted Dal
1
Grès à Avicula contorta
1
Distribution temporelle
Hettangien (201.4–199.5 Ma)
1
Rhétien (205.7–201.4 Ma)
10
Norien (227.3–205.7 Ma)
25
Espèces (12)
Plateosaurus elizae 206 Ma
Plateosaurus engelhardti 227 Ma
Plateosaurus erlenbergiensis 206 Ma
Plateosaurus fraasianus subjective synonym of Plateosaurus longiceps 227 Ma
Plateosaurus gracilis 227 Ma
Plateosaurus ingens
Plateosaurus integer subjective synonym of Plateosaurus longiceps 227 Ma
Plateosaurus longiceps 227 Ma
Plateosaurus quenstedti nomen dubium, species not entered Plateosaurus 227 Ma
Plateosaurus reinigeri nomen dubium, species not entered Plateosaurus 227 Ma
Plateosaurus trossingensis 227 Ma
Thecodontosaurus hermannianus subjective synonym of Plateosaurus gracilis 227 Ma
Synonymes (4)
Plateosaurus quenstedti nomen dubium, species not entered Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus reinigeri nomen dubium, species not entered Plateosaurus
Platysaurus subjective synonym of Plateosaurus
Sellosaurus subjective synonym of Plateosaurus
Bibliographie
Description originale
H. v. Meyer. 1837. Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet [Communications, sent to Professor Bronn]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1837:314-317
Bibliographie (26)
O. R. Regalado Fernández and I. Werneburg. 2022. A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72:771-822 DOI ↗
T. M. Scheyer, N. Klein, and S. W. Evers, A.-K. Mautner, B. Pabst. 2022. First evidence of Proganochelys quenstedtii (Testudinata) from the Plateosaurus bonebeds (Norian, Late Triassic) of Frick, Canton Aargau, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 141(17):1-26 DOI ↗
D. Nau, J. N. Lallensack, and U. Bachmann, P. M. Sander. 2020. Postcranial osteology of the first early-stage juvenile skeleton of Plateosaurus trossingensis from the Norian of Frick, Switzerland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 65(4):679-708 DOI ↗
R. R. Schoch. 2011. Tracing SEEMANN’s dinosaur excavation in the Upper Triassic of Trossingen: his field notes and the present status of the material. Palaeodiversity 4:245-282
J. H. Hurum, M. Bergan, and R. Müller, J. P. Nystuen, N. Klein. 2006. A Late Triassic dinosaur bone, offshore Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 86:117-123
M. Moser. 2003. Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) aus dem Feuerletten (Mittelkeuper; Obertrias) von Bayern. Zitteliana B 24:1-188
A. M. Yates. 2003. The species taxonomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaurs from the Löwenstein Formation (Norian, Late Triassic) of Germany. Palaeontology 46(2):317-337 DOI ↗
P. M. Galton. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of Germany. Actas de Las I Jornadas Internacionales Sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y Su Entorno, Salas de Los Infantes, Burgos, Spain, September 1999. Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas, C.A.S.
P. M. Galton. 2001. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species. Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20(2):435-502
P. M. Galton. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaur Sellosaurus gracilis (Upper Triassic, Germany): third sacral vertebra as either a dorsosacral or a caudosacral. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 2001(11):688-704 DOI ↗
P. M. Galton. 1998. The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (Dimodosaurus) poligniensis (Pidancet & Chopard, 1862) (Upper Triassic, Poligny, France). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 207(2):255-288 DOI ↗
R. Windolf. 1998. Dinosaurierfunde in Niedersachsen [Dinosaur finds in Lower Saxony]. Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 26:1-7
E. Buffetaut and G. Wouters. 1986. Amphibian and reptile remains from the Upper Triassic of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port (eastern France) and their biostratigraphic significance. Modern Geology 10:133-145
P. M. Galton. 1986. Prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (= Gresslyosaurus) (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland. Geologica et Palaeontologica 20:167-183
D. M. Martill and A. Dawn. 1986. Fossil vertebrates from new exposures of the Westbury Formation (Upper Triassic) at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Mercian Geologist 10(2):127-133
P. M. Galton. 1985. Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Sellosaurus gracilis from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg, West Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 118:1-39
J. W. Kitching and M. A. Raath. 1984. Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia Africana 25:111-125
J. F. Bonaparte. 1978. El Mesozoico de America de Sur y sus Tetrapodos [The Mesozoic of South America and its tetrapods]. Opera Lilloana 26:1-596
A. F. d. Lapparent. 1967. Les dinosaures de France [The dinosaurs of France]. Sciences 51:4-19
M. Lang and F. v. Huene. 1952. Die Saurier Thüringens nach Erhebungen ihres centralen Betreuters Dr. med. u. Dr. rer. nat. h. c. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern† [The Dinosaurs of Thuringia after Surveys of Their Central Supervisor M.D. and Dr. Nat. Sci. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern†] DOI ↗
R. Dehm. 1935. Beobachtungen im oberen Bunten Keuper Mittelfrankens [Observations on the upper Bunter Keuper from middle Franconia]. Zentralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Abteilung B: Geologie und Paläontologie 1935(4):97-109
F. v. Huene. 1932. Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie, serie 1 4(1-2):1-361
E. Fraas. 1914. Die neuesten Dinosaurierfunde in der schwäbischen Trias [The latest dinosaur finds in the Swabian Triassic]. Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturfoscher und Ärzte 85:125-132 DOI ↗
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F. v. Huene. 1905. Trias-Dinosaurier Europas [European Triassic dinosaurs]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 57:345-349 DOI ↗
H. v. Meyer. 1837. Mittheilungen, an Professor Bronn gerichtet [Communications, sent to Professor Bronn]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1837:314-317