Despite the great quantity and excellent quality of the fossil material, " Plateosaurus " was for a long time one of the most misunderstood dinosaurs.
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On each side of the mandible there were 19 teeth more than in all known sauropods, but fewer than in the prosauropod " Plateosaurus ".
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The episode ends with the arrival of a migrating herd of " Plateosaurus ", foreshadowing the dominance of the sauropods after the Triassic-Jurassic extinction event.
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In 1998, Paul Sereno defined Plateosauria as the last common ancestor of " Plateosaurus engelhardti " and " Massospondylus carinatus ", and its descendants.
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Sidney Haughton named " Plateosaurus cullingworthi " in 1924 from a partial skeleton, type specimen SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350-51, 3603, 3607.
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MB . R . 4520 and additional unprepared material attributed to " Elachistosuchus " were found during the excavation of a skeleton of " Plateosaurus " around 1928.
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Plateosaurus material has also been found in Greenland "-I think it balances if we give where in Greenland ( as we have specific localities in all the preceding countries)
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Discovered in 1834 by Johann Friedrich Engelhardt and described three years later by Hermann von Meyer, " Plateosaurus " was the fifth named dinosaur genus that is still considered valid.
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Unusually for a dinosaur, " Plateosaurus " showed strong developmental plasticity : instead of having a fairly uniform adult size, fully grown individuals were between long and weighed between.
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Material assigned to " Plateosaurus " has been found at over 50 localities in Germany ( mainly along the Neckar and junior synonym of " P . engelhardti ".
