Tuebingosaurus
Sign in to saveTuebingosaurus (meaning "Tübingen lizard") is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic Trossingen Formation of Germany. The genus contains a single species, Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum, originally identified as a specimen of Plateosaurus.
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- Sauropoda
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- Late Triassic
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Tuebingosaurus (meaning "Tübingen lizard") is an extinct genus of massopodan sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Late Triassic Trossingen Formation of Germany. The genus contains a single species, Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum, originally identified as a specimen of Plateosaurus.
== Discovery and naming == thumb|left|Holotype pelvis
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