Pronunciation: PLAT-ee-o-SOR-uh-day
Author: Othniel Charles Marsh
Year: 1895
Meaning: Broad lizard family (see etymology)
Locomotion: Both bipedal and quadrupedal (2 and 4 legs)
Synonyms:
Sellosauridae (Huene, 1908)
Prosauropoda? (Huene, 1920)
Author: Othniel Charles Marsh
Year: 1895
Meaning: Broad lizard family (see etymology)
Locomotion: Both bipedal and quadrupedal (2 and 4 legs)
Synonyms:
Sellosauridae (Huene, 1908)
Prosauropoda? (Huene, 1920)
[Yates, 2007] Definition
All animals more closely related to Plateosaurus engelhardti than to Diplodocus longus.
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[Broad Lizard Family] Etymology
Although shrouded in mystery because Tornier didn't provide a meaning for the name of group anchor Plateosaurus, Plateoauridae is probably derived from the Greek "plateos" (broad, wide, bulky, in reference to its robust limb bones) and "sauros" (lizard), and the Latin "-idae" (family).
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References
• Marsh OC (1895) "On the affinities and classification of the dinosaurian reptiles". American Journal of Science, 50(300): 483–498. DOI: 10.2475/ajs.s4-7.42.403
• von Huene F (1920) "Bemerkungen zur Systematik und Stammesgeschichte einiger Reptilien" [Remarks on the systematics and phylogeny of some reptiles]. Zeitschrift für Induktive Abstammungs und Vererbungslehre, 22: 209-212
• Sereno PC (1998) "A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with applications to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, 210: 41-83. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/210/1998/41
• Galton P (2001) "The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus MEYER, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species". Revue de Paleobiologie, 20(2): 435-502
• Galton PM and Upchurch P (2004) "Prosauropoda". In Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (Eds.) "The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Yates AM (2007) "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)". Evolution and Palaeobiology. 77: 9–55
• Tidwell V and Carpenter K (2005) "Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs".
• Novas FE, Ezcurra MD, Chatterjee S and Kutty TS (2011) "New dinosaur species from the Upper Triassic Upper Maleri and Lower Dharmaram formations of central India". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 101 (3–4): 333–349
