Schleitheimia

DV-1114 · type species Schleitheimia schutzi

Lived: 227 to 206 million years ago, Late Triassic
Group: Early sauropodomorphs
Found in: Switzerland
Named by: Rauhut et al. 2020

Field notes

About Schleitheimia

Schleitheimia was an early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 227 to 206 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Schleitheimia, from Switzerland. Its fossils come from the Klettgau Formation. It was named by Rauhut et al. in 2020.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

220 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Sauropodiformes.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. W. M. Rauhut, F. M. Holwerda, and H. Furrer. 2020. A derived sauropodiform dinosaur and other sauropodomorph material from the Late Triassic of Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113:8:1-54