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Gresslyosaurus

Gresslyosaurus logo #20023(pronounced GRES-lee-oh-SAWR-us) Gressly osaurus was quadrupedal plant-eating dinosaur that lived during the late Triassic period . This 23 feet (7 m) long dinosaur ate leaves high in the trees. Gresslyosaurus means Gressly's lizard, named to honor the Swiss geologist Amanz Gressly (1814-1865), who coined the term facies to describe the aspects (or...
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Gresslyosaurus

Gresslyosaurus logo #21009Gresslyosaurus This nomenclature (“Gressly’s lizard”) is no longer recognized by scientists because they found that it described an animal that was previously given another name which is Plateosaurus. Named by Rütimeyer in 1857.
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