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Gresslyosaurus
| Description | Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe and Greenland, North America. Plateosaurus is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". As of 2011, two species are recognised: the type species P. engelhardti from the late Norian and Rhaetian, and the slightly earlier P. gracilis from the lower Norian. However, others have been assigned in the past, and there is no broad consensus on the species taxonomy of plateosaurid dinosaurs. Similarly, there are a plethora of synonyms (invalid duplicate names) at the genus level. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresslyosaurus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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| Rank | genus | |||||||
| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Gresslyosaurus | |||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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| Scientific Name | Gresslyosaurus Rütimeyer, 1857 | |||||||
| Name Published In | Verh. Schweiz. Ges., 1856 | |||||||
| Common Name(s) | Gressly's Lizard | |||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresslyosaurus |
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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 Gresslyosaurus plieningeri ✝species | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 2 | 228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic | 228 Ma Late/Upper Triassic |
References
| Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
| Verh. Schweiz. Ges., 1856 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
