
آنکیسور
Sign in to saveAnchisaurus 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 "
Wikidata facts
- 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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