Dinosaur Coloring Pages - Other Dinosaur 4 - Plateosaurus
Plateosaurus (meaning 'flat lizard') is a dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 216 to 199 million years ago in what is now Europe.
Plateosaurus was one of the first dinosaurs formally named, it was first discovered in 1834 but not described until three years later because at the time
it the find was poorly known and impossible to identify as a dinosaur.
Plateosaurus were bulky bipedal herbivores which had small skulls on long necks, sharp plant-crushing teeth, powerful limbs, and large thumb
claw on each 'hand' probably used for defense and feeding.
Scientific information used on this page relating to this animal is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Plateosaurus".
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