Actiosaurus
Field photograph to come
Actiosaurus
DV-0045 · type species Actiosaurus gaudryi
- Lived
- 206 to 201 million years ago, Late Triassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs, Anchisauridae
- Found in
- France
- Named by
- Sauvage 1883
Field notes
About Actiosaurus
Actiosaurus was a plant-eating early sauropodomorph that lived in the Late Triassic, 206 to 201 million years ago. It belongs to the family Anchisauridae.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Actiosaurus, from France. It was named by Sauvage in 1883.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
200 million years ago
Close relatives
Other members of Anchisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: H.-E. Sauvage. 1883. Recherches sur les reptiles trouvés dans l'étage rhétien des environs d'Autun [Research on the reptiles found in the Rhaetian stage of the environs of Autun]. Annales des Sciences Géologiques 14(3):1-44