Family
Valid Extinct

Anchisauridae

anchisaurid
(Marsh 1885)

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Temporal range
Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
Paleogene
Neogene
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
PBDB occurrences
17
Group
Dinosaures
Herbivore Ground dwelling Terrestrial
Anchisauridae
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PLATE II(IX). Fig. 1. Anchisaurus colurus MARSH. All extant specimens in approximately 1/5 nat. size. Connecticut red sandstone (Upper Triassic). Manchester, Conn., USA. MARSH's original specimen, preserved at the Yale Museum, New Haven, Conn. Scale bar: 11 cm. Skull: see Pl. I [VIII], forefoot: see Pl. III [X], scapula, hindleg, and pubis: see figures in the text. © Friedrich von Huene · Public domain · Wikimedia
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Classification
Dinosauria Unranked clade
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Saurischia Unranked clade
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Sauropodomorpha Unranked clade
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Bagualosauria Unranked clade
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Plateosauria Unranked clade
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Anchisauria Unranked clade
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Prosauropoda Unranked clade
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Anchisauridae Family
Fossil sites 17 geolocated sites
Distribution
Top countries
🇨🇳 China
9
🇱🇸 Lesotho
3
🇨🇦 Canada
3
🇫🇷 France
1
🇿🇦 South Africa
1
Geological formations
Lufeng
8
McCoy Brook
3
Clarens
2
Molteno
1
Elliot
1
Zhenzhuchong
1
Temporal distribution
Pliensbachian (192.9–184.2 Ma)
3
Sinemurian (199.5–192.9 Ma)
7
Hettangian (201.4–199.5 Ma)
5
Rhaetian (205.7–201.4 Ma)
1
Norian (227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Synonyms (5)
Amphisauridae subjective synonym of Anchisauridae
Gryponichidae subjective synonym of Anchisauridae
Gryponychidae subjective synonym of Anchisauridae
Palaeosauridae subjective synonym of Anchisauridae
Palaeosauriscidae subjective synonym of Anchisauridae
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Bibliography
Original description
O. C. Marsh. 1885. Names of extinct reptiles. American Journal of Science 29:169
Bibliography (11)
N. H. Shubin, P. E. Olsen, and H.-D. Sues. 1994. Early Jurassic small tetrapods from the McCoy Brook Formation of Nova Scotia, Canada. In N. C. Fraser & H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Z. Dong. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. China Ocean Press, Beijing
P. E. Olsen. 1989. Stop 11.3: Wasson Bluff. Paleontology. Tectonic, Depositional, and Paleoecological History of Early Mesozoic Rift Basins, Eastern North America. Gulf, North Carolina, USA to Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. July 20–30, 1989. International Geological Congress Field Trip T-351
P. E. Olsen, A. R. McCune, and K. S. Thomson. 1982. Correlation of the early Mesozoic Newark Supergroup by vertebrates, principally fishes. American Journal of Science 282:1-44 DOI ↗
P. Ellenberger. 1970. Les niveaux paléontologiques de première apparition des mammifères primoridaux en Afrique du Sud et leur ichnologie. Establissement de zones stratigraphiques detaillees dans le Stormberg du Lesotho (Afrique du Sud) (Trias Supérieur à Jurassique) [The paleontological levels of the first appearance of primordial mammals in southern Africa and their ichnology. Establishment of detailed stratigraphic zones in the Stormberg of Lesotho (southern Africa) (Upper Triassic to Jurassic). In: S. H. Haughton (ed.), Second Symposium on Gondwana Stratigraphy and Paleontology, International Union of Geological Sciences. Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Pretoria
D. J. Simmons. 1965. The non-therapsid reptiles of the Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Fieldiana: Geology 15(1):1-93 DOI ↗
S.-Y. Hu. 1961. [Some reptilian fossils from Lufeng, China]. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 5(3):278-283
C.-C. Young. 1951. The Lufeng saurischian fauna in China. Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C 13:1-96
C.-C. Young. 1948. Further notes on Gyposaurus sinensis Young. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28(1-2):91-103
C.-C. Young. 1941. Gyposaurus sinensis Young (sp. nov.) a new Prosauropoda from the Upper Triassic beds at Lufeng, Yunnan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 21(2-4):205-252 DOI ↗
H.-E. Sauvage. 1883. Recherches sur les reptiles trouvés dans l'étage rhétien des environs d'Autun [Research on the reptiles found in the Rhaetian stage of the environs of Autun]. Annales des Sciences Géologiques 14(3):1-44