Abstract Although sauropodomorph dinosaurs have been known for a long time from the Late Triassic of central Europe, sauropodomorph diversity and faunal composition has remained controversial until today.Here we review sauropodomorph material from the Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland.The material comes from three different but geographically close localities and represents at least three different taxa.Apart from the common genus Plateosaurus, the material includes remains of two different large, robustly built 7 Piece Queen Bedroom sauropodomorphs.
One of these is described as a new taxon, Schleitheimia schutzi n.gen.et sp., on the basis of an unusual ilium and associated axial and appendicular material.
Schleitheimia represents a derived Circle Jewelry Dish_FULL basal sauropodiform and possibly the immediate outgroup to Sauropoda, and thus is the most derived sauropodomorph known from the Late Triassic of Europe.These results thus highlight the diversity of sauropodomorphs in the Late Triassic of central Europe and further indicate widespread sauropodomorph survival across the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.ZooBank LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BDB8A5D5-B41E-49ED-B2B0-075E1310A1B1.