Plateosaurus

plateosaurus

In Depth        Plateosaurus is probably the best understood sauropodomorph dinosaur currently known,‭ ‬and also one of the oldest dinosaur genera.‭ ‬Named in‭ ‬1837,‭ ‬Plateosaurus actually predated the creation of the Dinosauria by Richard Owen in‭ ‬1842,‭ ‬though the genus missed out on being one of the defining dinosaur genera‭ (‬instead Owen used Megalosaurus,‭ ‬Iguanodon and … Read more