Plateosauravus

Plateosauravus ("grandfather of Plateosaurus") is a basal plateosaurian of uncertain affinities from the Late Triassic Elliot Formation of South Africa.

Plateosauravus Temporal range: Norian ~221–202 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Humerus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Clade:	Dinosauria
Clade:	Saurischia
Clade:	†Sauropodomorpha
Clade:	†Plateosauria
Genus:	†Plateosauravus von Huene 1932
Species:	†P. cullingworthi
Binomial name
†Plateosauravus cullingworthi (Sidney Haughton 1924 [originally Plateosaurus])

Sidney Haughton named Plateosaurus cullingworthi 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 Heerden reassigned 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 Euskelosaurus and has suggested the use of Plateosauravus instead.^{[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]