Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Prosauropoda Anchisauridae [Herbivore]

In 1885 Othniel Charles Marsh named the family Anchisauridae for Anchisaurus. Galton en Paul Upchurch gave in 2004 an exact definition as a clade: the group consisting of Anchisaurus and all species more closely related to Anchisaurus than to Melanorosaus.

Jurassic Early US

Anchisaurus

> Amphisaurus - Upper Portland Formation, Newark Supergroup, Connecticut

> Anchisaurus colurus - Connecticut Valley (quarry near Manchester), Connecticut

> Anchisaurus polyzelus - Upper Portland Formation, Newark Supergroup, Connecticut;
Portland Formation, Massachusetts

> Megadactylus polyzelus - Upper Portland Formation , Newark Supergroup, Connecticut

> Yaleosaurus colurus - Connecticut Valley (quarry near Manchester), Connecticut