@article {168, title = {Opinion 2435: Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha): new type species designated}, journal = {Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature}, volume = {76}, year = {2019}, month = {8}, type = {Opinion}, chapter = {144}, abstract = {

The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature has designated Plateosaurus trossingensis Fraas, 1913 as the type species of the genus Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 by setting aside all previous fixations of type species for this nominal genus of sauropodomorph dinosaurs.

}, keywords = {Dinosauria, France, Germany, Greenland, Nomenclature, P. engelhardti, Plateosaurus, Sauropodomorpha, Switzerland, taxonomy, Upper Triassic}, author = {ICZN} }