French paleontologist Auguste Pomel named the genus Dyrosaurus in 1894 for Djebel Dyr, a mountain near Tebessa in Algeria where its fossilized vertebrae were found in a phosphate mine [REF].
The genus Dyrosaurus was created by A. Pomel (1894a) after M. Philippe Thomas discovered teeth and bone fragments from the Lower Eocene of Tunisia as Crocodilus Phosphaticus [REF].