Dystrophaeus

Roughly "bad ..." (first element Greek dys, "bad/ill"; exact sense of the second element uncertain)

• dys · Greek · bad, ill, difficult

The name begins with the Greek prefix "dys-", meaning bad or difficult. I'm not certain how Cope intended the second part, so I won't guess at its meaning. The type species, D. viaemalae, has a Latin name meaning "of the bad road". That name probably refers to the rough route where the fossils were collected in southeastern Utah.

Named by

Cope

Year named

1877

Period

Late Jurassic

Found in

Morrison Formation, Utah, USA

A sauropod known from very fragmentary remains, described from the Morrison Formation of Utah. Its exact position within Sauropoda is uncertain. The etymology of the second part of the name is not confirmed here.