Plateosauravus ("grandfather of Plateosaurus") is a basal plateosaurian of uncertain affinities from the Late TriassicElliot Formation of South Africa.
Sidney Haughton named Plateosauruscullingworthi in 1924 from a partial skeleton,[1] type specimen SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350–51, 3603, 3607. The specific name honoured collector T.L. Cullingworth. Friedrich von Huene reassessed it in 1932 as belonging to a new genus, which he named Plateosauravus.[2] Jacques van Heerdenreassigned it to Euskelosaurus in 1979, and this has been how it was usually considered.[3]However, recent study indicates that Euskelosaurus is based on undiagnostic material and thus a nomen dubium; in his series of sauropodomorph and basal sauropod papers, Adam Yates has recommended no longer using Euskelosaurusand has suggested the use of Plateosauravusinstead.[4][5][6][original research?]
More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in the Kruger National Park after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995. These include juvenile individuals.[7]
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