Plateosaurus
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| phylum | Chordata | Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in what is now Central and Northern Europe. Plateosaurus is a basal (early) sauropodomorph dinosaur, a so-called "prosauropod". Plateosaurus was a bipedal herbivore with a small skull on a long, mobile neck, sharp but plump plant-crushing teeth, powerful hind limbs, short but muscular arms and grasping hands with large claws on three fingers, possibly used for defence and feeding.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| order | Saurischia | |
| suborder | Sauropodomorpha | |
| family | Plateosauridae | |
| genus | Plateosaurus | |
| species | P. engelhardti | |
| Temporal range | Triassic |
