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Teratosaurus suevicus Meyer 1861
Authors/Creators
- 1. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen, Hölderlinstrasse 12, 72074 Tübingen, Germany. & Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment an der Universität Tübingen, Sigwartstrasse 10, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
- 2. Fachbereich Geowissenschaften an der Universität Tübingen, Hölderlinstrasse 12, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Description
Teratosaurus suevicus Meyer, 1861
Zanclodon suevicus – Fraas 1896: 18.
Type material
Holotype
GERMANY • right maxilla; Mittlerer Stubensandstein, Mittelkeuper (middle Norian, Late Triassic); NHMUK PV OR 38646.
Remarks
Fraas (1896) referred to this maxilla as Zanclodon suevicus (species 28 in Fig. 3). The morphology of the maxilla has been identified as an early-branching rauisuchian, a group of carnivore archosaurs from the Triassic (Brusatte et al. 2009). The genus Teratosaurus is therefore excluded from Sauropodomorpha. The species of Teratosaurus have been traditionally considered as part of Plateosaurus gracilis (species 20 in Fig. 3).
Notes
Published as part of Fernández, Omar Rafael Regalado, Stöhr, Henrik, Kästle, Benedikt & Werneburg, Ingmar, 2023, Diversity and taxonomy of the Late Triassic sauropodomorphs (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha) stored in the Palaeontological Collection of Tübingen, Germany, historically referred to Plateosaurus, pp. 1-88 in European Journal of Taxonomy 913 (1) on page 62, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.913.2375, http://zenodo.org/record/10405782
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NHMUK
- Material sample ID
- 38646
- Scientific name authorship
- Meyer
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Genus
- Teratosaurus
- Species
- suevicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Teratosaurus suevicus Meyer, 1861 sec. Fernández, Stöhr, Kästle & Werneburg, 2023
References
- von Meyer. H. 1861. Reptilien aus dem Stubensandstein des oberen Keupers. Palaeontographica 7: 253 - 346.
- Fraas E. 1896. Die Schwabischen Trias-Saurier nach dem Material der Kgl. Naturalien-Sammlung in Stuttgart zusammengestellt. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart.
- Brusatte S. L., Butler R. J., Sulej T. & Niedzwiedzki G. 2009. The taxonomy and anatomy of rauisuchian archosaurs from the Late Triassic of Germany and Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54 (2): 221 - 230. https: // doi. org / 10. 4202 / app. 2008. 0065