Ammosaurus
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Ammosaurus
DV-0058 · type species Ammosaurus major
- Lived
- 201 to 200 million years ago, Early Jurassic
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Length
- about 5 m (16 ft)
- Group
- Early sauropodomorphs, Anchisauridae
- Named by
- Marsh 1891
Field notes
About Ammosaurus
Ammosaurus was a plant-eating early sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic, 201 to 200 million years ago. It belongs to the family Anchisauridae.
It was named by Marsh in 1891.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
No finds with map coordinates are recorded yet.
To scale
How big was Ammosaurus?
Close relatives
Other members of Anchisauridae.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: O. C. Marsh. 1891. Notice of new vertebrate fossils. The American Journal of Science, series 3 42:265-269