Plateosauridae
| Plateosaurids | |
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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 
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| 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
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]
Classification
Plateosauridae, which was first named by
phylogenetic analyses also recovered Macrocollum and Unaysaurus within the Plateosauridae. The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below:[3]
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References
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- ^ a b c Yates, Adam M. (2007). Barrett, Paul M.; Batten, David J. (eds.). "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)". Evolution and Palaeobiology: 9–55.
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