Lambeosaurinae is a group of crested hadrosaurid

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Classification

Lambeosaurines have been traditionally split into the tribes or clades

Parasaurolophini Parasaurolophini is a tribe of derived corythosaurian lambeosaurine hadrosaurids that are native to Asia, and North America. It is defined as everything closer to ''Parasaurolophus walkeri'' than to '' Lambeosaurus lambei''. It currently contain ...

('' Parasaurolophus'', '' Charonosaurus'', others (?).) and

Lambeosaurini Lambeosaurini, previously known as Corythosaurini, is one of four tribes of hadrosaurid ornithopods from the family Lambeosaurinae. It is defined as all lambeosaurines closer to '' Lambeosaurus lambei'' than to ''Parasaurolophus walkeri, Tsintaos ...

('' Corythosaurus'', '' Hypacrosaurus'', '' Lambeosaurus'', others.). Corythosaurini (synonym of Lambeosaurini, see below) and Parasaurolophini as terms entered the formal literature in Evans and Reisz's 2007 redescription of ''Lambeosaurus magnicristatus''. Corythosaurini was defined as all

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more closely related to ''Corythosaurus casuarius'' than to ''Parasaurolophus walkeri'', and Parasaurolophini as all those taxa closer to ''P. walkeri'' than to ''C. casuarius''. In this study, '' Charonosaurus'' and ''Parasaurolophus'' are parasaurolophins, and ''Corythosaurus'', ''Hypacrosaurus'', ''Lambeosaurus'', '' Nipponosaurus'', and '' Olorotitan'' are corythosaurins. However, later researchers pointed out that due to the rules of priority set forth by the ICZN, Any tribe containing ''Lambeosaurus'' is properly named Lambeosaurini, and that therefore the name "Corythosaurini" is a junior synonym, and the definition had ''Corythosaurus casuarius'' changed to ''Lambeosaurus lambei'', and the same for Parasaurolophini.Sullivan, R., Jasinsky, S.E., Guenther, M. and Lucas, S.G. (2009). "The first lambeosaurin (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico." ''New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin'', 53: 405-417

/ref> In more recent years Tsintaosaurini (''

Tsintaosaurus ''Tsintaosaurus'' (; meaning "Qingdao lizard", after the old transliteration "Tsingtao") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur from China. It was about long and weighed . The type species is ''Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus'', first described by Chine ...

'' + '' Pararhabdodon'') and Aralosaurini (''

Aralosaurus ''Aralosaurus'' was a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kazakhstan. It is known only by a posterior half of a skull (devoid of its mandible) and some post-cranial bones found in the Bostobe Formati ...

'' + '' Canardia'') have also emerged.

Phylogeny

The following

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was recovered in a 2022 phylogenetic analysis by Xing Hai, and colleagues.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q135620 Taxa named by William Parks

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