| Source Data | |
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| Rank | unranked clade (PBDB) |
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| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Plateosauria |
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Classification
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| Opinions (PBDB) | | Name | Rank | Opinion | Evidence | Author |
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| Plateosauria | suborder | belongs to Dinosauria | stated with evidence | Tornier, 1913 | | Plateosauria | infraorder | belongs to Palaeopoda | stated without evidence | Colbert, 1964 | | Plateosauria | infraorder | subjective synonym of Prosauropoda | stated with evidence | Kuhn, 1966 | | Plateosauria | infraorder | belongs to Palaeopoda | stated without evidence | Colbert, 1970 | | Plateosauria | suborder | subjective synonym of Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Steel, 1970 | | Plateosauria | suborder | belongs to Saurischia | stated without evidence | Zhao, 1983 | | Plateosauria | suborder | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Sereno, 1997 | | Plateosauria | suborder | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated with evidence | Sereno, 1998 | | Plateosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated without evidence | Galton et al., 2005 | | Plateosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated with evidence | Upchurch et al., 2007 | | Plateosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropodomorpha | stated without evidence | Smith and Pol, 2007 | | Plateosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Prosauropoda | stated with evidence | MartĂnez, 2009 | | Plateosauria | unranked clade | belongs to Sauropodomorpha | stated with evidence | Apaldetti et al., 2011 |
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct |
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| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 50 |
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| First Recorded Appearance | 237 - 228 Ma
Late/Upper Triassic |
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| Last Recorded Appearance | 191 - 174 Ma
Jurassic |
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| Environment | terrestrial (based on Diapsida) |
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| Motility | actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes) |
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| Taphonomy | phosphatic (based on Vertebrata) |
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| Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. Tornier. 1913. Reptilia. Paläontologie [Reptilia. Paleontology]. Handwörterbuch der Naturwissenschaften 8:337-376 |
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| Tornier G. (1913) Reptilia. Paläontologie [Reptilia. Paleontology], Handwörterbuch der Naturwissenschaften 8, 337-376 |
| Colbert E. H. (1964) Relationships of the saurischian dinosaurs, American Museum Novitates 2181, 1-24 |
| Colbert E. H. (1970) A saurischian dinosaur from the Triassic of Brazil, American Museum Novitates 2405, 1-39 |
| Zhao X. (1983) Phylogeny and evolutionary stages of Dinosauria, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 28 1-2, 295-306 |
| Sereno P. C. (1997) The origin and evolution of dinosaurs, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 25, 435-489 |
| Sereno P. C. (1998) A rationale for phylogenetic definitions, with application to the higher-level taxonomy of Dinosauria, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 210 1, 41-83 |
| Sereno P. C. (1999) The evolution of dinosaurs, Science 284, 2137-2147 |
| Galton P. M. (2001) The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species, Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20 2, 435-502 |
| Galton P. M., Upchurch P. (2004) Prosauropoda, The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley, 232-258 |
| Galton P. M., Van Heerden J., et al (2005) Postcranial anatomy of referred specimens of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Melanorosaurus from the Upper Triassic of South Africa, Thunder-Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1-37 |
| Smith N. D., Pol D. (2007) Anatomy of a basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Hanson Formation of Antarctica, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 52 4, 657-674 |
| Upchurch P., Barrett P. M., et al (2007) A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, Evolution and Palaeobiology of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs, Special Papers in Palaeontology 77, 57-90 |
| MartĂnez R. N. (2009) Adeopapposaurus mognai, gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha), with comments on adaptations of basal Sauropodomorpha, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29 1, 142-164 doi:10.1671/039.029.0102 |
| Apaldetti C., Martinez R. N., et al (2011) A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina, PLoS ONE 6 11, e26964:1-19 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0026964 |
| Novas F. E., Ezcurra M. D., et al (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, 333-349 doi:10.1017/S1755691011020093 |
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