Efraasia

Eberhard Fraas's (animal)

• E. · Latin/German · initial of Eberhard
• Fraas · German (surname) · Eberhard Fraas, German paleontologist
• -ia · Latin · Latinised name ending

Efraasia honours the German paleontologist Eberhard Fraas, who collected the first fossils of this animal near Stuttgart in the early 1900s. The name is built from his initial "E." and his surname "Fraas", with a Latinised ending. It was coined because the species had earlier been placed in other genera, and Galton gave it a new genus name.

Named by

Galton

Year named

1973

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

Löwenstein Formation (Stubensandstein), near Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

An early, basal sauropodomorph (not a true sauropod). The type species is Efraasia diagnostica. Its relationship to the similar German genus Sellosaurus has been debated, and some researchers have treated Sellosaurus as a synonym of Efraasia.