Anchisauria
| Anchisaurians | |
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| Life restoration of Anchisaurus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Massopoda |
| Clade: | † Sauropodiformes
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| Clade: | †Anchisauria Haekel, 1895 |
| Subgroups[1][2] | |
Anchisauria is an extinct
Melanorosaurus readi, and all its descendants.[5] Galton and Upchurch assigned a family of dinosaurs to the Anchisauria: the Melanorosauridae. The more common prosauropods Plateosaurus and Massospondylus were placed in the sister clade Plateosauria
.
However, research has since indicated that Anchisaurus is closer to
sauropods than traditional prosauropods; thus, Anchisauria would by definition also include Sauropoda.[6]
The following cladogram simplified after an analysis presented by Blair McPhee and colleagues in 2014.[7]
| Anchisauria | |
References
Sources
- 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 978-1-4051-6933-2
