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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 epoch of the Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". The…

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related to history · 43
Plateosaurus → Baden-Württemberg, Berlin, Between, Bonn, Europe, Extant, France, Frick, German, Germany, Halberstadt, Hermann, Heroldsberg, However, In, Johann Friedrich Engelhardt, Liliensternus, Mammals, Martin Sander, Material
related to Classification · 26
Plateosaurus → Basal, Before, Dinosauria, For, Huene, Hylaeosaurus, Iguanodon, In, Initially, Later, Megalosaurus, Meyer, Of, Othniel Charles Marsh, Pachypodes, Plateosauridae, Prosauropoda, Reevaluation, Sauria, Sellosaurus
related to Etymology · 26
Plateosaurus → Agassiz, Ancient Greek, British, English, German, Greek, Hanns Bruno Geinitz, Heavy Land Mammalia, Iguanodon, In, Later, Latin, Limbs Similar, Megalosaurus, Meyer's Latin, Often, Pachypoda, Pachypodes, Platysaurus, Richard Owen's Dinosauria
related to Posture and gait · 18
Plateosaurus → Andreas Christian, Fraas, From, German, Gustav Tornier, Halberstadt, Holger Preuschoft, However, In, Jaekel, Many, Moser, Müller-Stoll, Only, Practically, Trossingen, Von Huene, Wellnhofer
related to Valid species · 18
Plateosaurus → As, Efraasia, Germany, He, However, Huene, In, It, Keuper, Moser, Palaeontologist Adam Yates, Sellosaurus, Switzerland, The, This, University, Witwatersrand, Yates
related to Taphonomy · 10
Plateosaurus → Additionally, All, Also, Complete, Frick, Halberstadt, However, Proganochelys, The, Trossingen
related to Description · 6
Plateosaurus → However, Its, Some, The, There, These
related to External links · 6
Plateosaurus → Media, Sketchfab, Sketchfab3D, Wikimedia Commons Data, Wikispecies3D, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Palaeoecology · 6
Plateosaurus → Important, Oliver Wings, Paul Barrett, Psittacosaurus, So, The
related to Distribution · 3
Plateosaurus → Löwenstein Formation, Norian, Trossingen Formation

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species material von trossingen type animals genus found three limb dinosaur bones gracilis long dinosaurs known engelhardti however individuals skeletons

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Plateosaurusis abasal0.90text
the pubic bonesinstance ofbut the teeth and other flat bones0.80text
some skull elements were unknown at the time of description.Von Meyer's original short description from 1837 did not provide an etymology for Plateosaurusinstance ofbut the teeth and other flat bones0.80text
but notedinstance ofbut the teeth and other flat bones0.80text
food availabilityinstance ofprobably in response to environmental factors0.80text
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationThe0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationPlateosauridae0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationInitially0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationSauria0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationIn0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationMeyer0.60section
Plateosaurusrelated to ClassificationPachypodes0.60section

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