Anchisauria
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| Anchisauria Fossil range: Triassic-Jurassic |
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The Anchisauria were a clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs which lived during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. The name Anchisauria was first used by Galton and Upchurch in the second edition of The Dinosauria. Galton and Upchurch assigned two families of dinosaurs to the Anchisauria: the Anchisauridae and the Melanorosauridae, of which Anchisaurus and Melanorosaurus are the best-known members. The more common prosauropods Plateosaurus and Massospondylus were placed in the sister clade Plateosauria.
However, recent evidence suggests that Anchisaurus is an early sauropod, not a prosauropod. Yates (2007) classified Yunnanosaurus and Anchisaurus within the Anchisauria.
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- Galton, P.M & Upchurch, P. (2004). "Prosauropoda". In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, & H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria (second edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 232-258.
- Yates, Adam M. (2007), "The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria)", in Barrett, Paul M. & Batten, David J., Special Papers in Palaeontology, vol. 77, pp. 9–55, ISBN 9781405169332
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