Anchisaurus

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Anchisaurus

Fossil range: Early Jurassic

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
Synonyms
(originally Megadactylus polyzelus)

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.