Pachysauriscus
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Pachysauriscus is a genus of plateosaurian sauropodomorpha from the Late Triassic (Norian) of southern Germany. Although previously synonymized with Plateosaurus, a number of papers published since the early 2000s have cast doubt on this synonymy.
Pachysauriscus Temporal range: Late Triassic (Norian), | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Clade: | Dinosauria |
Clade: | Saurischia |
Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
Family: | †Plateosauridae |
Genus: | †Pachysauriscus Kuhn, 1959 |
Type species | |
†Pachysauriscus ajax von Huene, 1907-08 | |
Synonyms | |
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Taxonomy
Pachysauriscus was originally named Pachysaurus by Friedrich von Huene in his 1908 monograph on Triassic dinosaurs from Europe.[1] Two nominal species were described in the 1908 monograph, the type species P. ajax and P. magnus. Two more Pachysaurus species were named in a 1932 paper, P. wetzeli (also spelled as P. wetzelianus) and P. giganteus. The name Pachysaurus was later found to have been used for a monitor lizard, so Kuhn (1959) provided the replacement name Pachysauriscus. For his part, von Huene (1961) replaced Pachysaurus with Pachysaurops, in which case Pachysaurops is a junior objective synonym of Pachysauriscus.[2][3]
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