Describer

Hitchcock, 1865

Time

Jurassic Early Pliensbachian Toarcian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Anchisauridae

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Upper Portland Formation, Newark Supergroup, Connecticut; Portland Formation, Massachusetts, US

Fall Under

Anchisaurus

Length

2,4 meter

Info

Typespecies - Skull

Anchisaurus (Marsh, 1885) = Megadactylus (Hitchcock, 1865) = Amphisaurus (Marsh, 1882) = Yaleosaurus (Huene, 1932)

Anchisaurus (Marsh, 1885) > Anchisaurus polyzelus (Hitchcock, 1865) = Megadactylus polyzelus (Hitchcock, 1865) > Anchisaurus colurus (Marsh, 1891) > Yaleosaurus colurus (Huene, 1932)

Nearly complete skull and skeleton, fragmentary skeleton, adult.