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The Anchisauridae were a group of early sauropodomorph dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s first proposed by Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West....
 in 1885. The clade
Clade

A clade is a term used in modern alpha taxonomy, the scientific classification of living and fossil organisms, to describe a monophyletic group, defined as a group consisting of a single common ancestor and all its descendants.The term "monophyletic group" is used in this article in the conventional sense of "an a...
 consists of Anchisaurus
Anchisaurus

Anchisaurus is a genus of Sauropoda dinosaur, until recently classed as a member of the more primitive Prosauropoda family. The name Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for Amphisaurus, which was a replacement name for Hitchcock's Megadactylus, both of which had already been used for other animals....
 and its nearest relatives. However, it is not clear which other genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 are included in the family; many of the dinosaurs once included have since been moved elsewhere. The family is not used much in current taxonomies; Benton
Michael J. Benton

Michael J. Benton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and professor of vertebrate paleontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol....
 (2004) does not list the clade. The anchisaurids were once considered prosauropods, but new research indicates they may in fact have been basal sauropods.








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The Anchisauridae were a group of early sauropodomorph dinosaur
Dinosaur

Dinosaurs were the dominant vertebrate animals of Landform ecosystems for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic Period until the end of the Cretaceous Period , when most of them became extinct in the Cretaceous?Tertiary extinction event....
s first proposed by Othniel Charles Marsh
Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh was one of the pre-eminent paleontologists of the 19th century, who discovered and named many fossils found in the American West....
 in 1885. The clade
Clade

A clade is a term used in modern alpha taxonomy, the scientific classification of living and fossil organisms, to describe a monophyletic group, defined as a group consisting of a single common ancestor and all its descendants.The term "monophyletic group" is used in this article in the conventional sense of "an a...
 consists of Anchisaurus
Anchisaurus

Anchisaurus is a genus of Sauropoda dinosaur, until recently classed as a member of the more primitive Prosauropoda family. The name Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for Amphisaurus, which was a replacement name for Hitchcock's Megadactylus, both of which had already been used for other animals....
 and its nearest relatives. However, it is not clear which other genera
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 are included in the family; many of the dinosaurs once included have since been moved elsewhere. The family is not used much in current taxonomies; Benton
Michael J. Benton

Michael J. Benton is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and professor of vertebrate paleontology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol....
 (2004) does not list the clade. The anchisaurids were once considered prosauropods, but new research indicates they may in fact have been basal sauropods.

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  • Anchisaurus
    Anchisaurus

    Anchisaurus is a genus of Sauropoda dinosaur, until recently classed as a member of the more primitive Prosauropoda family. The name Anchisaurus was coined as a replacement name for Amphisaurus, which was a replacement name for Hitchcock's Megadactylus, both of which had already been used for other animals....


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