Extinct clade of dinosaurs
Anchisauria is an extinct clade of sauropodomorph dinosaurs that lived from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous . The name Anchisauria was first used Haekel and defined by Galton and Upchurch in the second edition of The Dinosauria .[ 3] [ 4] It is a node-based taxon containing the most recent common ancestor of Anchisaurus polyzelus and 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]
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^ McPhee, B. W.; Yates, A. M.; Choiniere, J. N.; Abdala, F. (2014). "The complete anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Antetonitrus ingenipes(Sauropodiformes, Dinosauria): Implications for the origins of Sauropoda". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 171 : 151–205. doi :10.1111/zoj.12127 . S2CID 82631097 .