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Anchisaurus

Marsh, 1885
TYPE SPECIES: A. polyzelus, Hitchcock, 1865 (as "Megadactylus")
OTHER SPECIES: A. capensis, Broom, 1911 (as Gyposaurus=Massospondylus)
A. colurus, Marsh, 1892=A. polyzelus
A. major, Marsh, 1889=Ammosaurus major
A. sinensis, Young, 1941 (as Gyposaurus)="Gyposaurus" sinensis
A. solus, Marsh 1892=Ammosaurus major
SYNONYMS: none
CLASSIFICATION:
Ornithodira
Dinosauria
Saurischia
Sauropodomorpha
Prosauropoda
LENGTH: 2 meters (6 feet)
TIME PERIOD: Pliensbachian to Toarcian (Early Jurassic)
LOCATION: New England, USA
ABOUT: A small prosauropod.