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Dyslocosaurus polyonychius ✝

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Dyslocosaurus (meaning "hard-to-place lizard") is the name given in 1992 to a genus of sauropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic Period of Wyoming, North America.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslocosaurus_polyonychius, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	8670241	https://www.gbif.org/species/8670241
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	157546	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=157546

Rank

species

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Dinosauria : Dicraeosauridae : Dyslocosaurus : Dyslocosaurus polyonychius

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Dicraeosauridae : Dyslocosaurus : Dyslocosaurus polyonychius

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Sauropsida	Huxley 1864
class	Reptilia	Laurenti 1768
subclass	Eureptilia
-	Romeriida	Gauthier et al. 1988
-	Diapsida
-	Eosuchia
-	Neodiapsida	Benton 1985
-	Sauria	Gauthier 1984
-	Archosauromorpha
-	Crocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
-	Eucrocopoda	Ezcurra 2016
-	Archosauria
informal	Avemetatarsalia	Benton 1999
-	Ornithodira	Gauthier 1986
-	Dinosauromorpha	Benton 1985
-	Dinosauriformes	Novas 1992
-	Dinosauria
-	Saurischia
-	Eusaurischia	Padian et al. 1999
-	Sauropodomorpha
-	Massopoda	Yates 2007
-	Sauropodiformes	Martinez et al. 2011
-	Sauropoda
-	Eusauropoda	Upchurch 1995
-	Neosauropoda	Bonaparte 1986
-	Diplodocoidea
-	Diplodocimorpha	Calvo and Salgado 1995
-	Flagellicaudata	Harris and Dodson 2004
-	Dicraeosauridae
genus	Dyslocosaurus	Mcintosh et al. 1992
species	Dyslocosaurus polyonychius	Mcintosh et al. 1992

Generic Name

Dyslocosaurus

Scientific Name

Dyslocosaurus polyonychius Mcintosh et al., 1992

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Dyslocosaurus polyonychius	species	belongs to Dyslocosaurus	stated with evidence	Mcintosh et al., 1992
Dyslocosaurus polyonychius	species	belongs to Dyslocosaurus	stated without evidence	Chure et al., 2006
Dyslocosaurus polyonychius	species	belongs to Dyslocosaurus	stated with evidence	Tschopp et al., 2015

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

157 - 145 Ma
Jurassic

Last Recorded Appearance

157 - 145 Ma
Jurassic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Sauropoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Diet

herbivore (based on Sauropoda)

Reproduction

oviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Sauropoda)

Ontogeny

accretion,modification of parts (based on Sauropoda)

Taphonomy

hydroxylapatite,compact or dense,thick (based on Sauropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. S. Mcintosh, W. P. Coombs, and D. A. Russell. 1992. A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):158-167

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslocosaurus_polyonychius

Fossil Distribution

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1992	Dyslocosaurus polyonychius Mcintosh et al. p. 158
2006	Dyslocosaurus polyonychius Chure et al. p. 236
2013	Dyslocosaurus polyonychius Tschopp and Mateus p. 880
2015	Dyslocosaurus polyonychius Tschopp et al.

References

Mcintosh J. S., Coombs W. P., et al (1992) A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, U.S.A., Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12 2, 158-167

Chure D. J., Litwin R., et al (2006) The fauna and flora of the Morrison Formation: 2006, Paleontology and Geology of the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 36, 233-249

Tschopp E., Mateus O. (2013) The skull and neck of a new flagellicaudatan sauropod from the Morrison Formation and its implication for the evolution and ontogeny of diplodocid dinosaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 7, 853-888 doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.746589

Tschopp E., Mateus O., et al (2015) A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda), PeerJ 3, e857 doi:10.7717/peerj.857

E. Tschopp, O. Mateus, R. B. J. Benson (2015) A specimen-level phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Diplodocidae (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): PeerJ: e857 (10.7717/peerj.857) - via Catalogue of Life

J. S. Mcintosh, W. P. Coombs, D. A. Russell (1992) A new diplodocid sauropod (Dinosauria) from Wyoming, U.S.A.: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2: 158--167 - via Catalogue of Life

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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