Yaleosaurus
YALE-ee-oh-SORE-us /ˌjeɪliːoʊˈsɔːrəs/
Synonym of Anchisaurus
Yale lizard
- Yale · English (place/institution) · Yale University
- sauros · Greek · lizard
Yaleosaurus means "Yale lizard". It honours Yale University, whose Peabody Museum holds the fossil material that O. C. Marsh originally described. Friedrich von Huene used the name in 1932 for the species Marsh had called Anchisaurus colurus.
- Named by
- von Huene
- Year named
- 1932
- Period
- Early Jurassic
- Found in
- Portland Formation, Connecticut, USA
Yaleosaurus is generally regarded as a junior synonym of Anchisaurus, a basal sauropodomorph. Its type species, Yaleosaurus colurus, is now treated as Anchisaurus polyzelus or a closely related Anchisaurus species. The exact stages are uncertain, so they are left blank.