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Plateosaurus is an extinct genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived in Europe and Greenland during the Late Triassic.
Description[]
Plateosaurus looked like the typical bipedal herbivorous dinosaur. It had a small head, a long and flexible neck made of 10 cervical vertebrae, a large body and a tail made from ~40 caudal vertebrae that is long and mobile. Plateosaurus had arms that were short when compared to other sauropodomorphs ('prosauropods'), but they were strong and had hands equipped to powerfully grasp. Their shoulder girdles are narrow and often misaligned in skeletal reconstructions. The clavicles touched the midline, like other basal prosauropods. Their legs held under the body and the knees and ankles slightly flexed. The foot was digitigrade. Plateosaurus was a fast runner, as proposed by the long lower leg and metatarsus. It had a muscular, high-mobile tail (typical of Dinosauria).
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The Trossingen Formation. Credit: Natalia Jagielska.
