Dinosaur
Anchisaurus
Its hands had a large thumb that may have helped it feed.
Anchisaurus is known from reddish rocks that preserve part of the Early Jurassic of North America.
Three stages. One companion.
Game artwork
AI-generated, stylized game illustrations. These designs and growth stages are imaginative, not scientific reconstructions.
Anchisaurus at a glance
- Diet
- Herbivore
- A plant-based diet is inferred from its anatomy and comparisons with related animals; not all herbivores ate the same plants.
- When it lived
- Jurassic
- Group
- Sauropodomorpha
- Sauropodomorphs
- Fossil locations
- United States
- Places where fossils have been found
Beyond the game
The real Anchisaurus
It was an early sauropodomorph known from reddish sandstones of the northeastern United States. Its classification has changed with the revision of the ancient dinosaurs called "prosauropods."
Its hands had large thumbs that may have helped with feeding. Its classification has changed as researchers reassessed the relationships of early long-necked dinosaurs. Scientific categories are adjusted to reflect what bone comparisons reveal.
This grouping describes evolutionary relationships. Its members share ancestors; they do not form a chain in which one must turn into another.
Fossil discoveries
Selected fossil records · present-day map
Map references
Map: Natural Earth, public domain. Fossil records: linked collections and publications.Sources & text credits
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- Anchisaurus polyzelus
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- Anchisaurus
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- Sauropodomorpha
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- Living birds
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