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Anchisaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur. It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, and its fossils have been found in the red sandstone of the Upper Portland Formation, Northeastern United States, which was deposited from the Hettangian age into the Sinemurian age, between about 200 and 192 million years ago. Until recently it was classed as a member of Prosauropoda. The genus name Anchisaurus comes from the Greek αγχι (') ; "near, close" + Greek ('); "lizard". Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for "Amphisaurus", which was itself a replacement name for Hitchcock's "

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Parent taxon
Anchisauridae
Image
Anchisaurus2.jpg
Length
2.0
Said to be same as
Ammosaurus
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taxon name
Anchisaurus
Commons category
Anchisaurus
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Anchisaurus
Commons gallery
Anchisaurus
start time
200000000-
end time
195000000-
time period
Early Jurassic
location of discovery
United States
main food source
herbivore
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