Outline: a typical sauropod
Dyslocosaurus
"hard-to-place lizard"
Type species Dyslocosaurus polyonychius
- Lived
- 155 to 143 million years ago, Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Sauropods, Dicraeosauridae
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Mcintosh et al. 1992
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
150 million years ago
Field notes
About Dyslocosaurus
What it was like
Dyslocosaurus was a long-necked sauropod known from leg and foot bones. The foot seems to have had more claws than usual for a sauropod, but some scientists think bones of other animals were mixed in.
Its world
It lived in the Late Jurassic in what is now Wyoming. Its bones probably come from the Morrison Formation, where it lived alongside Allosaurus, Stegosaurus and many other sauropods.
How it was found
Mcintosh and colleagues named it in 1992. The type species is Dyslocosaurus polyonychius. The name refers to the uncertain record of where it was found.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Dicraeosauridae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: 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