Ruehleia bedheimensis, a new prosauropod from Germany

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A new prosauropod genus and species is created by Galton (2001):

Ruehleia bedheimensis Galton, 2001

Holotype: MB (Museum fur Naturkunde, Berlin), unnumbered (Rhule von
Lilienstern Collection): a reasonably complete skeleton, that consist of
cervicals 4-10, dorsaals 1-14, partial sacrum, about 20 caudals, right
scapula-coracoid, both humeri, right radius and ulna, both manus
(incomplete), both pelvic girdles, femora, tibiae and right astragalus.

Etymology: latinized names as an allusion to Hugo Ruhle von Llienstern of
Bedheim.

Locality and : Romhild, 20 Km from Schleusingen, sowthwest of
Hildburghausen (South Turingia, Germany).

Age: Upper Norian (Trossingen Formation = Knollenmergel).

Ruehleia bedheimensis is a plateosaur sensu Galton & Uppchurp (in prep.)
with the following characters: three vertebrae sacrum includes a
dorsosacral; ilium with a very large pubic peduncle and an extremely short
anterior process, proximal end of the pubis with length of articular
surface for ilium much longer than wide with a very short acetabular part
(equals half width of iliac surface); manus with three large carpals with
comlicated proximal articular surfaces.

The ref is:

Galton, P. M. 2001. Prosauropod dinosaurs from the Upper Triassic of
Germany. In Colectivo Arqueologico-Paleontologico de Salas, C.A.S. (Eds.):
"Actas de las I Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontologia de Dinosaurios
y su Entorno (Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on
Paleontology of Dinosaurs and their Environment)", Burgos (Spain), 25-92.

The holotype and referred specimens will be described by Galton (in press,
The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia:
Sauropodomorpha). II. Notes on referred species from the Upper Triassic.
Revue de Paleobiolgie, Geneve)

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