Anchisaurus
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| Anchisaurus Temporal range: Lower Jurassic |
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Fossil
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | Saurischia |
| Suborder: | Sauropodomorpha |
| Infraorder: | Sauropoda |
| Family: | Anchisauridae |
| Genus: | Anchisaurus |
| Species: | A. polyzelus Hitchcock, 1865 |
| Binomial name | |
| A. polyzelus Marsh, 1885 |
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| Synonyms | |
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(originally Megadactylus polyzelus) |
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Anchisaurus was a small sauropodmorph dinosaur from the early Jurassic. It was shown in the movie When Dinosaurs Roamed America getting attacked by a pack of Megapnosaurus and eaten by a Dilophosaurus.
