Schleitheimia

from Schleitheim

• Schleitheim · German (place name) · village in Schaffhausen, Switzerland
• -ia · Latin · place or land of (Latinised suffix)

Schleitheimia is named after Schleitheim, the village in the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen near where the fossils were found. The Latinised place name takes the ending "-ia", which means "land" or "place of". The name marks the Schleitheim bonebed, which has produced many Late Triassic dinosaur fossils. The name is a place name only and has no "-saurus" ending.

Named by

Rauhut, Holwerda and Furrer

Year named

2020

Period

Late Triassic

Stage

Norian

Found in

Klettgau Formation, Schleitheim, Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland

A sauropodomorph dinosaur, originally described as a plateosaurid-grade relative of Plateosaurus. The type species is Schleitheimia schutzi. The exact pronunciation is not given here because I am unsure of it.