''Plateosauravus'' ("

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Plateosaurus ''Plateosaurus'' (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Eu ...

''") is a basal

plateosauria Plateosauria is a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. The name Plateosauria was first coined by Gustav Tornier in 1913. The name afterwards fell out of use until the 1980s. Classificat ...

n of uncertain affinities from the

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Elliot Formation The Elliot Formation is a geological formation and forms part of the Stormberg Group, the uppermost geological group that comprises the greater Karoo Supergroup. Outcrops of the Elliot Formation have been found in the northern Eastern Cape, south ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring count ...

Sidney Haughton Sidney Henry Haughton FRS (7 May 1888 – 24 May 1982) was an English-born South African paleontologist and geologist best known for his description of the sauropodomorph dinosaur ''Melanorosaurus'' in 1924, and his work on the geology o ...

named ''

cullingworthi'' in 1924 from a partial skeleton,Haughton, S.H. (1924) "The fauna and stratigraphy of the Stormberg Series". ''Annals of the South African Museum'' 12:323-497.

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SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350–51, 3603, 3607. The specific name honoured collector T.L. Cullingworth.

Friedrich von Huene Friedrich von Huene, born Friedrich Richard von Hoinigen, (March 22, 1875 – April 4, 1969) was a German paleontologist who renamed more dinosaurs in the early 20th century than anyone else in Europe. He also made key contributions about v ...

reassessed it in 1932 as belonging to a new genus, which he named ''Plateosauravus''.von Huene, F. (1932).
Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte
. ''Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie'', series 1:4, 361 pp.

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reassigned it to '' Euskelosaurus'' in 1979, and this has been how it was usually considered.van Heerden, J. (1979). The morphology and taxonomy of '' Euskelosaurus'' (Reptilia: Saurischia; Late Triassic) from South Africa. ''Navorsinge van die Nasionale Museum'' 4(2):23-84. However, recent study indicates that ''Euskelosaurus'' is based on undiagnostic material and thus a ''

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''; in his series of sauropodomorph and basal sauropod papers,

Adam Yates Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...

has recommended no longer using ''Euskelosaurus'' and has suggested the use of ''Plateosauravus'' instead.Yates, A.M. (2003). A new species of the primitive dinosaur ''

Thecodontosaurus ''Thecodontosaurus'' ("socket-tooth lizard") is a genus of herbivorous basal sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period (Rhaetian age). Its remains are known mostly from Triassic "fissure fillings" in South England. ''T ...

'' (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for the systematics of early dinosaurs. ''Journal of Systematic Palaeontology'' 1(1):1-42Yates, 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 B'' 270(1525):1753-1758.Yates, A.M. (2006). Solving a dinosaurian puzzle: the identity of '' Aliwalia rex'' Galton. ''Historical Biology'', iFirst article, 1-30. More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in the

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after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995. These include juvenile individuals.Durand, J.F. 2001. The oldest juvenile dinosaurs from Africa. African Earth Sciences 33:597–603.

References

External links

Adam Yates on basal sauropodomorphs
Plateosauria Late Triassic dinosaurs of Africa Triassic South Africa Fossils of South Africa Fossil taxa described in 1932 Taxa named by Friedrich von Huene {{Sauropodomorph-stub