Schleitheimia
Schleitheimia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Clade: | † Sauropodiformes
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Genus: | †Schleitheimia Rauhut, Holwerda & Furrer, 2020 |
Type species | |
†Schleitheimia schutzi Rauhut, Holwerda & Furrer, 2020
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Schleitheimia (named after the type locality of Schleitheim), is an extinct genus of
Discovery and naming
The type material was collected between 1952 and 1954 by Emil Schutz. They were donated to the
In 2020, Oliver Rauhut, Femke Holwerda and Heinz Furrer redescribed most of Schutz's remains, as well as some remains in the collections of the Museum zu Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen and new remains from an excavation in 2016 led by Holwerda. They found that the earlier found remains represented a new genus and species, which they named Schleitheimia schultzi, honoring the type locality and the discoverer of the type remains. The 2016 finds were not referred. Finds made by Schultz near Hallau-Schwärzibuck were considered to represent a different previously unknown taxon and remained unnamed.
The holotype, PIMUZ A/III 550, was found in a layer of the Klettgau Formation dating from the Norian. It consists of a partial right ilium. Several other bones from the general locality were designated as paratypes. Because they are consistent in morphology, the describers referred all of them to the same taxon, if not the same individual.[1]
Description
The holotype of Schleitheimia shows a number of
Classification
A
Sauropodiformes
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References
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