Ruehleia

Rühle's (lizard); named in honour of Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern

• Rühle (Ruehle) · German (surname) · Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern, the collector
• -ia · Latin · Latin suffix used to form a genus name

Ruehleia honours Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern, the German paleontologist who excavated the specimen near Bedheim in the 1930s. The name is a Latinised form of his surname. The only species, R. bedheimensis, is named after the village of Bedheim.

Named by

Galton

Year named

2001

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

Near Bedheim, Thuringia, Germany

A plateosaurid sauropodomorph ("prosauropod"). It was known for decades as a Plateosaurus-like specimen before Galton gave it its own genus. Some details of the age and stratigraphy are given from memory and may need checking.