Plateosauridae
| Plateosaurids Temporal range: Late Triassic-Early Jurassic, | |
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| Mounted skeletons of Plateosaurus longiceps from the Trossingen Formation of southern Germany, mounted in the Institute for Geosciences Tübingen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Plateosauria |
| Family: | †Plateosauridae Marsh, 1895 |
| Type species | |
| †Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas, 1913 | |
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Plateosauridae is a family of plateosaurian sauropodomorphs from the Late Triassic of Europe, Greenland, Africa and Asia. Although several dinosaurs have been classified as plateosaurids over the years, the family Plateosauridae is now restricted to Plateosaurus, Yimenosaurus, Euskelosaurus, and Issi. In another study, Yates (2003) sunk Sellosaurus into Plateosaurus (as P. gracilis). Gresslyosaurus is alternatively considered its own genus or a synonym of Plateosaurus.