| Ruehleia | |
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| Neck vertebrae, Naturkunde Museum, Berlin | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Genus: | †Ruehleia Galton, 2001 |
| Species: | †R. bedheimensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Ruehleia bedheimensis Galton, 2001 | |
Ruehleia is agenus ofsauropodomorphdinosaur from the LateTriassic period ofGermany. Thetype species isR. bedheimensis, described byGalton in 2001,[1] and is named for theGermanpaleontologist Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern. Discovered in 1952, theholotype consists of one nearly complete skeleton, includingcervical (neck),dorsal (back), andcaudal (tail)vertebrae; a partialsacrum; ascapulocoracoid; pelvic bones; most limb bones; and a partially completemanus (hands).[2] The fossils were found in theTrossingen Formation of central Germany and date to theNorian stage, around 216 to 208million years ago.[1]
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