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Case 3560: Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): proposed replacement of unidentifiable name-bearing type by a neotype.

Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2012
Authors: Galton, P. M.
Journal:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Volume:69
Issue:3
Start Page:203
Pagination:
Date Published:09/2012
Type of Article:Case
Keywords: Dinosauria, France, Germany, Greenland, Nomenclature, P. engelhardti, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Switzerland, taxonomy, Upper Triassic
Abstract:

The purpose of this application, under Article 75.5 of the Code, is to conserve the usage of the name Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Upper Triassic, Germany), known from numerous articulated skeletons, several with complete skulls, from the Norian Plateosaurus bonebeds of Western Europe and Greenland. This was the first non-English, non-avian dinosaur and the second sauropodomorph and Triassic dinosaur to be named. It is proposed to replace the fragmentary and non-diagnostic bones that constitute the type material of Plateosaurus engelhardti Meyer, 1837, the type species of Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837, with a diagnostic neotype, an almost complete skull and skeleton (SMNS 13200). This specimen has formed the basis for the concept of P. engelhardti (the best represented basal sauropodomorph) and ultimately of Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837. Plateosaurus is the basis for Plateosauridae Marsh, 1895 and Plateosauria Tornier, 1913.

Full Text:

https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v69i3.a15

Case:
Case 3560

Volume/Issue:
69(3)

Taxonomic Group(s):
Dinosauria, Sauropoda

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Opinions

Opinion 2435: Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new type species designated
Publication Type:Journal Article
Year of Publication:2019
Authors: ICZN
Journal:Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Volume:76
Issue:
Start Page:144
Pagination:
Date Published:08/2019
Type of Article:Opinion
Keywords: Dinosauria, France, Germany, Greenland, Nomenclature, P. engelhardti, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Switzerland, taxonomy, Upper Triassic
Abstract:

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has designated Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas, 1913 as the type species of the genus Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 by setting aside all previous fixations of type species for this nominal genus of sauropodomorph dinosaurs.

Full Text:

http://dx.doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v76.a042

Opinion:
Opinion 2435

Volume/Issue:
76

Taxonomic Group(s):

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Status of Case:
Resolved (Opinion Issued)

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