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.

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Pachysauriscus
Temporal range: Late Triassic (Norian), 227–204 Ma
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
  • Pachysaurops von Huene, 1961
  • Pachysaurus von Huene, 1907–1908
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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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