Plateosaurus is everywhere! @Sauriermuseumaathal has on display #Plateosaurus material from the @SauriermuseumFrick, the latter of which has some of the most incredible sauropodomoprh specimens ever discovered in their care. This skull and articulated cervicals is indicative of the amazing quality preserved at the Frick locality. A place I should add that is, in square kilometers of productivity, some have posited it is the largest patch of #Triassic fossils ever discovered. Why the bounty of go

Meet #Schleitheimia, Switzerland’s answer to Plateosaurus. I had no idea the Swiss had so many great paleo locales! Monte San Giorgio, sure, but the Frick Quarry and others plus Triassic footprints surprised me. I am from Arizona, well-known for Triassic terrestrial beasts and numerous trackways, and felt at home with the non-aquatic animals. This exhibit does a great job letting people who grew up in Switzerland smile in amazement when they see fossils found near their hometown. I watched folks

#Plateosaurus with damaged shoulder This cast of yet another essentially complete, articulated Late Triassic Plateosaurus from the Frick Quarry. This one is on display at the Natural History Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. As you can hear the amazing Dr. Dennis Hansen explain, the gnarled mass at the bottom of the screen early on is a terribly damaged shoulder. This animal wouldn’t have been able to move its arm. Yet it survived for seemingly years after the injury. Such surviva