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Dystrophaeus
Taxonomy
Dystrophaeus was named by Cope (1877). Its type is Dystrophaeus viaemalae. It is the type genus of Dystrophaeidae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Camarasaurus by Madsen and Miller (1979).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Cope (1877); to Atlantosauridae by Sauvage (1882) and Dollo (1884); to Stegosauria by Zittel (1890); to Stegosauria by Winkler (1893); to Orthopoda by Huene (1902); to Stegosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Nopcsa (1901) and Hay (1902); to Dystrophaeidae by Huene (1904); to Cetiosauridae by Huene (1908), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911) and Lull (1924); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Cardiodontinae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927) and Huene (1929); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966); to Cetiosaurinae by Romer (1956) and Steel (1970); to Diplodocinae by McIntosh (1990); to Sauropoda by Cope (1877), Carroll (1988), Gillette (1993) and Upchurch et al. (2004); to Sauropoda by Hay (1930), Tatarinov (1964) and Chure et al. (2006); and to Eusauropoda by Wilson (2002) and Tschopp et al. (2015).
It was synonymized subjectively with Camarasaurus by Madsen and Miller (1979).
It was assigned to Dinosauria by Cope (1877); to Atlantosauridae by Sauvage (1882) and Dollo (1884); to Stegosauria by Zittel (1890); to Stegosauria by Winkler (1893); to Orthopoda by Huene (1902); to Stegosauridae by Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Nopcsa (1901) and Hay (1902); to Dystrophaeidae by Huene (1904); to Cetiosauridae by Huene (1908), Huene (1908), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911) and Lull (1924); to Camarasaurinae by Nopcsa (1928); to Cardiodontinae by Huene (1927), Huene (1927) and Huene (1929); to Brachiosauridae by Romer (1966); to Cetiosaurinae by Romer (1956) and Steel (1970); to Diplodocinae by McIntosh (1990); to Sauropoda by Cope (1877), Carroll (1988), Gillette (1993) and Upchurch et al. (2004); to Sauropoda by Hay (1930), Tatarinov (1964) and Chure et al. (2006); and to Eusauropoda by Wilson (2002) and Tschopp et al. (2015).
Species
D. viaemalae (type species)
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1877 | Dystrophaeus Cope |
| 1882 | Dystrophaeus Sauvage p. 35 |
| 1884 | Dystrophaeus Dollo p. 298 |
| 1890 | Dystrophaeus Zittel p. 749 |
| 1893 | Dystrophaeus Winkler p. 105 |
| 1895 | Dystrophaeus Marsh |
| 1896 | Dystrophaeus Marsh p. 195 |
| 1901 | Dystrophaeus Nopcsa p. 213 |
| 1902 | Dystrophaeus Hay p. 497 |
| 1902 | Dystrophaeus Huene |
| 1904 | Dystrophaeus Huene p. 331 |
| 1908 | Dystrophaeus Huene p. 296 |
| 1909 | Dystrophaeus Huene p. 14 |
| 1911 | Distrophaeus von Zittel p. 285 |
| 1924 | Distrophaeus Lull p. 234 |
| 1927 | Dystrophaeus Huene p. 122 |
| 1928 | Dystrophaeus Nopcsa p. 184 |
| 1929 | Dystrophaeus Huene p. 115 |
| 1930 | Dystrophaeus Hay p. 201 |
| 1956 | Dystrophaeus Romer p. 620 |
| 1964 | Dystrophaeus Tatarinov p. 549 |
| 1966 | Dystrophaeus Romer p. 370 |
| 1970 | Dystrophaeus Steel p. 65 |
| 1988 | Dystrophaeus Carroll |
| 1990 | Dystrophaeus McIntosh p. 391 |
| 1993 | Dystrophaeus Gillette p. 37A |
| 2002 | Dystrophaeus Wilson p. 248 |
| 2004 | Dystrophaeus Upchurch et al. p. 261 |
| 2006 | Dystrophaeus Chure et al. p. 236 |
| 2015 | Dystrophaeus Tschopp et al. |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available