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Plateosauridae is a family of the Infraorder
Scientific classification

Biological classification or scientific classification in biology, is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms....
 Prosauropoda
Prosauropoda

Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size ....
 of the Suborder Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha

The Sauropodomorpha were a group of long-necked, herbivore dinosaurs that eventually dropped down on quadruped and became the largest animals that ever terrestrial animal....
. Plateosaurids were early sauropodomorph dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s which lived during the Late Triassic
Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....
. Although several dinosaurs have been classified as plateosaurids over the years, a 2007 study (by Yates) found only Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus

Plateosaurus is a genus of Plateosauridae prosauropoda dinosaur that lived during the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic Period , around 216 to 199 annum in what is now Europe....
 and Unaysaurus
Unaysaurus

Unaysaurus is a genus of sauropodomorpha dinosaur, and is one of the oldest dinosaurs known. It was discovered in southern Brazil,in the geopark of paleorrota, in 1998, and announced in a press conference on Thursday, December 3, 2004....
 valid plateosaurids.








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Plateosauridae is a family of the Infraorder
Scientific classification

Biological classification or scientific classification in biology, is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms....
 Prosauropoda
Prosauropoda

Prosauropoda or prosauropods were a group of early herbivorous dinosaurs that lived during the Triassic and early Jurassic periods. They were frequently the predominant herbivore in their environment, and quickly reached large size ....
 of the Suborder Sauropodomorpha
Sauropodomorpha

The Sauropodomorpha were a group of long-necked, herbivore dinosaurs that eventually dropped down on quadruped and became the largest animals that ever terrestrial animal....
. Plateosaurids were early sauropodomorph dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s which lived during the Late Triassic
Late Triassic

The Late Triassic is in the geologic timescale the third and final of three epoch s of the Triassic geological timescale. The corresponding series is known as the Upper Triassic....
. Although several dinosaurs have been classified as plateosaurids over the years, a 2007 study (by Yates) found only Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus

Plateosaurus is a genus of Plateosauridae prosauropoda dinosaur that lived during the Norian and Rhaetian stages of the Late Triassic Period , around 216 to 199 annum in what is now Europe....
 and Unaysaurus
Unaysaurus

Unaysaurus is a genus of sauropodomorpha dinosaur, and is one of the oldest dinosaurs known. It was discovered in southern Brazil,in the geopark of paleorrota, in 1998, and announced in a press conference on Thursday, December 3, 2004....
 valid plateosaurids.

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