Gresslyosaurus

Gresslyosaurus
Temporal range: Late Triassic,
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Gresslyosaurus ingens holotype
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Sauropodomorpha
Family: Plateosauridae
Genus: Gresslyosaurus
Rütimeyer, 1857
Type species
Gresslyosaurus ingens
Rütimeyer, 1857
Other species
  • G. plieningeri Huene, 1905
  • G. robustus Huene, 1905
  • G. torgeri Jaekel, 1911
Synonyms
  • Dinosaurus Rütimeyer, 1856 (nomen nudum)
  • Plateosaurus plieningeri Huene, 1905

Gresslyosaurus (meaning "Amanz Gressly's lizard") is a genus of plateosaurian sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago, in France, Germany, Norway, Greenland and Switzerland.