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Taxon: Genus †Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (dinosaur)
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Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Sauropodomorpha - (Family) Plateosauridae

Included, by definition, in node-based clade

†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Plateosauria (Clade) Tornier 1913 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 251.
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Included, by definition, in branch-based clade

†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 252.
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998] Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: 233.

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Massopoda (Clade) Yates 2007 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: table 1 (p. 590) (Yates, 2007a, b).
†Massospondylidae (Clade) Huene 1914 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).
†Sauropoda (Clade) Marsh 1878 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: table 4 (p. 63).

Current position

†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 139.

Alternative positions

†Anchisauridae (Family) Marsh, 1885 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).

Historical positions

†Prosauropoda (Clade) Huene 1920 [Sereno 1998] Ref: B.B. Britt et al., 2017: 234 (fig. 35).
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: A. Otero et al., 2015: 612 (fig. 17).
Dinosauria (Clade) Owen 1841 [Padian & May 1993], nom. cl. inval. Ref: C.F. Kammerer et al., 2012(2011): 282 (fig. 4). [rough position]
†Sauropodomorpha (Clade) Huene 1932 [Salgado et al. 1997] Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: fig. 52.
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: M.J. Benton, 2005: box 8.5. [implicit]
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.M. Galton & P. Upchurch, 2004: table 12.1 (p. [235]), 249 (fig. 12.11).
†Plateosauridae (Clade) Marsh 1895 Ref: P.C. Sereno, 1998: 71 (fig. 7A).
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: D. Lambert & the Diagram Group, 1991(1997): 139.
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: G. Olshevsky, 1991: 132.
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: B. Gardiner et al., 1989: 302.
†Anchisauridae (Family) Marsh, 1885 Ref: R.L. Carroll, 1988: App. (p. 621).
†Plateosauridae (Family) Marsh, 1895 Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1971): 595.

Number of Subtaxa

2026 Available in Systema Naturae 2000 †3s
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