Back أنشيصور Arabic Anquisaure Catalan Anchisaurus Czech Anchisaurus German Anchisaurus polyzelus Spanish آنکیسور Persian Anchisaurus Finnish Anchisaurus French אנצ'יזאורוס HE Anchisaurus Hungarian
| Anchisaurus Temporal range: Early Jurassic,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropodiformes |
| Clade: | †Anchisauria |
| Genus: | †Anchisaurus Marsh, 1885 |
| Species: | †A. polyzelus
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| †Anchisaurus polyzelus (Hitchcock, 1865)
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Anchisaurus is a genus of basal sauropodomorph dinosaur.[1] 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.[2] Until recently it was classed as a member of Prosauropoda. The genus name Anchisaurus comes from the Greek αγχι (agkhi) anchi-; "near, close" + Greek σαυρος (sauros); "lizard". Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for "Amphisaurus", which was itself a replacement name for Hitchcock's "Megadactylus", both of which had already been used for other animals.
- ^ Gaines, Richard M. (2001). Coelophysis. ABDO Publishing Company. p. 14. ISBN 1-57765-488-9.
- ^ Olsen, P.E. (2002). STRATIGRAPHY AND AGE OF THE EARLY JURASSIC PORTLAND FORMATION OF CONNECTICUT AND MASSACHUSETTS: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE TIME SCALE OF THE EARLY JURASSIC Archived 2018-11-28 at the Wayback Machine. Session No. 26 Studies of Depositional Systems and Sedimentary Rocks: In Honor of Edward Scudder Belt. 37th Annual Meeting (March 25–27, 2002).