Dystrophaeus viaemalae Cope 1877 (sauropod)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: E. D. Cope. 1877. On a dinosaurian from the Trias of Utah. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 16:579-584

Belongs to Dystrophaeus according to P. Upchurch et al. 2004

See also Breithaupt 1999, Chure et al. 2006, Cope 1877, Cope 1877, Cope 1878, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Huene 1904, Huene 1927, Madsen and Miller 1979, Maltese et al. 2018, Marsh 1896, Mateus 2006, McIntosh 1990, Mook 1916, Nopcsa 1901, Steel 1970, Tschopp and Mateus 2013 and Wilson 2002

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: USNM 2364, a partial skeleton (humerus, three metarsals, distal end of ulna, probable sternum, and fragments). Its type locality is East Canyon Quarry, Painted Canyon, which is in an Oxfordian crevasse splay sandstone in the Morrison Formation of Utah.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Average measurements (in mm): ? ulna diameter 150.0

Distribution: found only at East Canyon Quarry, Painted Canyon

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