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Anchisaurus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Anchisaurus was named by Marsh (1885). Its type is Megadactylus polyzelus. It is the type genus of Anchisauridae.

It was synonymized subjectively with Thecodontosaurus by Romer (1956), Romer (1966).

It was assigned to Anchisauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Theropoda by Marsh (1889), Gadow (1898), Gadow (1901); to Theropoda by Winkler (1893), Gadow (1897), Hay (1910); to Pachypodosauria by Huene (1914); to Thecodontosauridae by Huene (1908), Huene (1909), Huene (1914), Tatarinov (1964); to Prosauropoda by Bakker and Galton (1974); to Sauropodomorpha by Benton (1990); to Prosauropoda by Weishampel (2006); to Sauropodomorpha by Fedak and Galton (2007), Smith and Pol (2007); to Anchisauridae by Marsh (1885), Lydekker (1888), Zittel (1890), Marsh (1891), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Huene (1902), Mansel-Pleydell (1902), Hay (1902), Broom (1906), Sauvage (1907), von Zittel (1911), Lull (1912), Lull (1915), Lull (1917), Van Hoepen (1920), Lull (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Hay (1930), Lull (1953), Steel (1970), Galton (1971), Galton (1973), Galton (1976), Galton and Cluver (1976), Anderson and Cruickshank (1978), Russell (1984), Attridge et al. (1985), Battail (1986), Carroll (1988), Dong (1992), Galton and Upchurch (2004), Galton et al. (2005), Upchurch et al. (2007), Martínez (2009); to Anchisauria by Yates (2010), Apaldetti et al. (2011), Otero and Pol (2013); and to Massopoda by Novas et al. (2011), McPhee et al. (2015).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1865Megadactylus Hitchcock p. 39 figs. Pl. 9:6
1870Megadactylus Cope
1882Amphisaurus Marsh
1882Amphisaurus Sauvage pp. 35-36
1884Amphisaurus Dollo p. 298
1884Amphisaurus Marsh p. 69
1884Amphisaurus Vetter p. 363
1885Anchisaurus Marsh p. 169
1887Megadactylus Cope p. 222
1888Anchisaurus Lydekker p. 174
1889Anchisaurus Marsh p. 332
1890Anchisaurus Zittel p. 730
1891Anchisaurus Marsh p. 267
1893Anchisaurus Winkler p. 107
1895Anchisaurus Marsh
1896Anchisaurus Marsh p. 239
1897Anchisaurus Gadow p. 204
1898Anchisaurus Gadow p. 22
1901Anchisaurus Gadow p. 421
1901Anchisaurus Nopcsa p. 196
1902Anchisaurus Hay p. 491
1902Anchisaurus Huene
1902Anchisaurus Mansel-Pleydell p. lxxix
1906Anchisaurus Broom p. 204
1907Anchisaurus Sauvage p. 15
1908Anchisaurus Huene p. 307
1909Anchisaurus Huene p. 13
1910Anchisaurus Hay p. 18
1911Anchisaurus von Zittel p. 279
1912Anchisaurus Lull p. 411
1914Anchisaurus Huene p. 13
1915Anchisaurus Lull p. 118
1917Anchisaurus Lull p. 111
1920Anchisaurus Van Hoepen p. 92
1924Anchisaurus Lull p. 229
1928Anchisaurus Nopcsa p. 182
1930Anchisaurus Hay p. 170
1932Yaleosaurus Huene p. 119 figs. Pl. 54:3
1939Yaleosaurus Kuhn p. 63
1953Anchisaurus Lull p. 98
1953Yaleosaurus Lull p. 107
1956Yaleosaurus Romer p. 617
1964Anchisaurus Tatarinov p. 541
1966Yaleosaurus Romer p. 370
1970Anchisaurus Steel p. 48
1970Yaleosaurus Steel p. 52
1971Anchisaurus Galton p. 782
1973Anchisaurus Galton p. 247
1974Anchisaurus Bakker and Galton p. 170
1976Anchisaurus Galton p. 88
1976Anchisaurus Galton and Cluver p. 132
1978Anchisaurus Anderson and Cruickshank p. 31
1984Anchisaurus Russell p. 22
1985Anchisaurus Attridge et al. p. 128
1986Anchisaurus Battail p. 48
1988Anchisaurus Carroll
1990Anchisaurus Benton p. 19
1992Anchisaurus Dong p. 163
2004Anchisaurus Galton and Upchurch p. 234 fig. 12.11
2005Anchisaurus Galton et al. p. 30
2006Anchisaurus Weishampel p. 138
2007Anchisaurus Fedak and Galton p. 248
2007Anchisaurus Smith and Pol p. 668 fig. 7
2007Anchisaurus Upchurch et al. p. 62 fig. 3
2009Anchisaurus Martínez p. 162 fig. 22
2010Anchisaurus Yates p. 750
2011Anchisaurus Apaldetti et al. p. 16 fig. 13
2011Anchisaurus Novas et al. p. 341 fig. 4
2013Anchisaurus Otero and Pol
2015Anchisaurus McPhee et al. p. 19 fig. 12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
—Sauropsida
classReptilia
RankNameAuthor
subclassEureptilia()
—Romeriida
—Diapsida()
—Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
—Crocopoda
—ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
—Eucrocopoda
—Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
—Ornithodira
—Dinosauromorpha
—Dinosauriformes
—Dinosauria()
—Saurischia()
—Eusaurischia
—Sauropodomorpha(Huene 1932)
—Massopoda
genusAnchisaurus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Anchisaurus Marsh 1885
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†Anchisaurus polyzelus Hitchcock 1865
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Invalid names: Ammosaurus major Marsh 1889 [synonym], Ammosaurus solus Marsh 1892 [synonym], Anchisaurus colurus Marsh 1891 [synonym]
Invalid names: Amphisaurus Marsh 1882 [replaced], Megadactylus Hitchcock 1865 [replaced], Yaleosaurus Huene 1932 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: phosphaticsubp
Entire body: yesg
Maximum body mass: 30 kgg
Minimum body mass: 10 kgg
Environment: terrestrialsubc
Locomotion: actively mobilec
Created: 2005-08-24 13:30:58
Modified: 2005-08-24 15:30:58
Source: g = genus, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum
References: Carroll 1988, Hendy et al. 2009, Peczkis 1995

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Sinemurian or 201.40000 to 192.90000 Ma

Collections (3 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Connecticut) A. solus, A. major, A. colurus (47197)
Hettangian - Sinemurian201.4 - 192.9USA (Massachusetts) Dinosauria indet. (52965) Megadactylus polyzelus (47199)