Plateosaurids Temporal range: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic,
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Mounted skeletons of Plateosaurus longiceps from the Trossingen Formation of southern Germany, mounted in the Institute for Geosciences Tübingen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | †Plateosauria |
Family: | †Plateosauridae Marsh, 1895 |
Type species | |
†Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas, 1913
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Plateosauridae is a family of plateosaurian sauropodomorphs from the Late Triassic of Europe, Greenland, Africa and Asia.[1][2] Although several dinosaurs have been classified as plateosaurids over the years, the family Plateosauridae is now restricted to Plateosaurus, Yimenosaurus, Euskelosaurus, and Issi[3]. In another study, Yates (2003) sunk Sellosaurus into Plateosaurus (as P. gracilis). Gresslyosaurus is alternatively considered its own genus or a synonym of Plateosaurus.[3]
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