| Plateosauravus | |
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| Humerus | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Plateosauria |
| Genus: | †Plateosauravus von Huene 1932 |
| Species: | †P. cullingworthi |
| Binomial name | |
| †Plateosauravus cullingworthi (Sidney Haughton 1924 [originallyPlateosaurus]) | |
Plateosauravus ("grandfather ofPlateosaurus") is a basalplateosaurian of uncertain affinities from theLate TriassicElliot Formation ofSouth Africa.
Sidney Haughton namedPlateosaurus cullingworthi in 1924 from a partial skeleton,[1]type specimen SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350–51, 3603, 3607. The specific name honoured collector T.L. Cullingworth.Friedrich von Huene reassessed it in 1932 as belonging to a new genus, which he namedPlateosauravus.[2]Jacques van Heerden reassigned it toEuskelosaurus in 1979, and this has been how it was usually considered.[3] However, recent study indicates thatEuskelosaurus is based on undiagnostic material and thus anomen dubium; in his series of sauropodomorph and basal sauropod papers,Adam Yates has recommended no longer usingEuskelosaurus and has suggested the use ofPlateosauravus instead.[4][5][6][original research?]
More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in theKruger National Park after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995. These include juvenile individuals.[7]
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