Plateosauravus

Plateosauravus ("grandfather of "Plateosaurus"") is a basal plateosaurian of uncertain affinities from the Late Triassic Elliot Formation of South Africa.
Sidney Haughton named "Plateosaurus cullingworthi" in 1924 from a partial skeleton, type specimen SAM 3341, 3345, 3347, 3350–51, 3603, 3607. The specific name honoured collector T.L. Cullingworth. Friedrich von Huene reassessed it in 1932 as belonging to a new genus, which he named "Plateosauravus". Jacques van Heerden reassigned it to "Euskelosaurus" in 1979, and this has been how it was usually considered. However, recent study indicates that "Euskelosaurus" is based on undiagnostic material and thus a "nomen dubium"; in his series of sauropodomorph and basal sauropod papers, Adam Yates has recommended no longer using "Euskelosaurus" and has suggested the use of "Plateosauravus" instead.
More than a dozen additional partial skeletons have been found in the Kruger National Park after a discovery by game warden Adriaan Louw on 27 March 1995. These include juvenile individuals.
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