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Lambeosaurinae
Lambeosaurinae /ˌlæmbiəˈsɔːraɪniː/ (meaning 'lambe's lizards') is an extinct group of crested hadrosauroid dinosaurs.
Uncertainty surrounds the size of lambeosaurs from the European continent. Hadrosaurs found there, alongside other dinosaurs, have traditionally been considered representatives of the phenomenon of insular dwarfism, as the continent was then made up of many smaller islands. Many fossil remains from the continent are smaller than those of hadrosaurs found elsewhere in the world, with only isolated remains indicating individuals of adult size by the standards of their relatives in North America and Asia. It remains possible, however, that at least some cases instead represent misidentification of juvenile remains. The presence of genuine dwarfed taxa has been validated in some cases; adults of the genus Minqaria, for example, are thought to be around 3.5 metres (11 ft) in length. Contrastingly, the genus Pararhabdodon has a projected adult size similar to those of hadrosaurs on other continents, and known remains of Adynomosaurus and hadrosaurs from the Basturs Poble bonebed are of this adult size themselves. Why hadrosaurs of such variable sizes co-exist, despite being subject to the same environmental pressures, remains unclear.
The first material of hadrosaurids were found in the 1850s and named by American paleontologist Joseph Leidy: Trachodon mirabilis from Montana and Thespesius occidentalis from South Dakota in 1856, and Hadrosaurus foulkii from New Jersey in 1859. Numerous additional genera and species were described throughout the following decades, with the first discoveries in Alberta in the late 1890s and early 1900s by Canadian paleontologist Lawrence M. Lambe being ascribed to Trachodon under the subgenus Pteropelyx. The first hadrosaur to preserve a crest on the skull was Saurolophus named in 1912 by American paleontologist Barnum Brown for a skeleton from Alberta. It was to Saurolophus that Lambe found the greatest similarities for new specimens described from Alberta in 1914, which preserved a prominent crest on top of the skull. These remains he assigned to Stephanosaurus, a new genus name for Trachodon marginatus he had named earlier for material from the 1900s expeditions. While the crest of Saurolophus projected backwards, that of the material assigned to Stephanosaurus projected upwards above the eye. Brown followed up in 1914 with the description of some nearly complete skeletons from Alberta that he named Corythosaurus casuarius, which showed a tall and rounded crest atop the skull, and with him questioning the generic status of Stephanosaurus. As Stephanosaurus marginatus was named for incomplete material from the skeleton, Brown did not find the referral of the crested skulls to the taxon justifiable, suggesting they could belong to the genus Corythosaurus but as a distinct species. Brown also separated Trachodontidae into two subfamilies for the first time, uniting the taxa with crested skulls into Saurolophinae while other genera were contained within Trachodontinae.
Lambe subsequently revised the classification of Hadrosauridae (the older name for Trachodontidae) in 1920 following the description of the new genera Cheneosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Prosaurolophus and the discovery of a new skull he referred to Stephanosaurus in the interim, identifying that the crests of Saurolophus and Prosaurolophus were formed of different bones than the other crested genera and as a result separating Corythosaurus, Cheneosaurus, Hypacrosaurus and Stephanosaurus (including the crested skulls) into the new subfamily Stephanosaurinae. In 1923 the crested skulls were again removed from Stephanosaurus, this time by Canadian paleontologist William A. Parks, who established the new taxon Lambeosaurus lambei for them in honor of Lambe who had first described them. As Stephanosaurus could no longer be shown to be a crested hadrosaur, Parks also named the subfamily Lambeosaurinae to replace Stephanosaurinae for the group. This separation was further supported by American paleontologist Charles W. Gilmore the next year, who found that Stephanosaurus could be better referred to the genus Kritosaurus and was a member of Hadrosaurinae rather than Lambeosaurinae. Gilmore could not identify which subfamily Trachodon should belong in due to its very limited material, so he supported the separation of Hadrosauridae into Hadrosaurinae (rather than Trachodontinae), Saurolophinae, and Lambeosaurinae, the latter of which now also included Parasaurolophus.
American paleontologists Richard Swann Lull and Nelda E. Wright published a review article of Hadrosauridae in 1942 where they supported the subfamilies of Gilmore with the addition of Cheneosaurinae, which they named for small-bodied crested genera Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus. Cheneosaurins had small rounded crests while lambeosaurines possessed more elaborate crests of different forms between the genera. Both Lambeosaurinae and Cheneosaurinae were elevated to family rank as Lambeosauridae and Cheneosauridae by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1948 and 1956 respectively. However, American paleontologist Charles Mortram Sternberg in 1953 recognized that the divisions of previous studies were not useful, separating genera based on an arbitrary decision of feature significance, especially the separation of Cheneosaurinae from Lambeosaurinae. As a result, he condensed Hadrosauridae into only two subfamilies: Hadrosaurinae and Lambeosaurinae, with saurolophines being members of Hadrosaurinae, and cheneosaurines being members of Lambeosaurinae. Within Lambeosaurinae he included Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Cheneosaurus, Tetragonosaurus, and Trachodon; a classification he reiterated in 1954.
Work by American paleontologist Peter Dodson in 1975 revised the taxonomy of Lambeosaurinae by recognizing that Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus were not distinct genera but rather juveniles of other taxa that were not old enough to have fully-developed crests. The species of Procheneosaurus were identified as synonyms of either Lambeosaurus or Corythosaurus, while Cheneosaurus was identified as a juvenile of Hypacrosaurus. Following the recognition of cheneosaurs as juveniles of Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Hypacrosaurus, American palaeontologist Michael K. Brett-Surman published a phylogeny of all accepted genera of Hadrosauridae in 1979, and expanded Lambeosaurinae to also include Tsintaosaurus, with Jaxartosaurus and Bactrosaurus as early members, and Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus as one another's closest relatives. A 1990 review of hadrosaurs by American paleontologists David B. Weishampel and John R. Horner was unable to conclude if Tsintaosaurus was a lambeosaurine or hadrosaurine, but added the Asian genera Barsboldia and Nipponosaurus to Lambeosaurinae. The content of Lambeosaurinae expanded over the next decades before the second review by Horner in 2004. During this period, the Asian genera Amurosaurus, Charonosaurus, and Olorotitan were named and added to Lambeosaurinae, and the status of Tsintaosaurus as a lambeosaurine was solidified.
Lambeosaurines have been traditionally split into the tribes or clades Parasaurolophini (Parasaurolophus, Charonosaurus, others (?).) and Lambeosaurini (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 taxa 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. In more recent years Tsintaosaurini (Tsintaosaurus + Pararhabdodon) and Aralosaurini (Aralosaurus + Canardia) have also emerged.
A 2013 study describing the genus Canardia found it to form a grouping with Aralosaurus, therein named as Aralosaurini and defined as the most exclusive clade of hadrosaurs containing both Canardia and Aralosaurus. Though one 2022 study recovered the tribe as monophyletic, most modern analyses fail to recover a natural grouping between the two genera. Daniel Madzia and colleagues registered the name under Phylocode in a 2021 study and redefined it as "the largest clade containing Aralosaurus tuberiferus and Canardia garonnensis but not Lambeosaurus lambei, Parasaurolophus walkeri, and Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus".
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Lambeosaurinae
Lambeosaurinae /ˌlæmbiəˈsɔːraɪniː/ (meaning 'lambe's lizards') is an extinct group of crested hadrosauroid dinosaurs.
Uncertainty surrounds the size of lambeosaurs from the European continent. Hadrosaurs found there, alongside other dinosaurs, have traditionally been considered representatives of the phenomenon of insular dwarfism, as the continent was then made up of many smaller islands. Many fossil remains from the continent are smaller than those of hadrosaurs found elsewhere in the world, with only isolated remains indicating individuals of adult size by the standards of their relatives in North America and Asia. It remains possible, however, that at least some cases instead represent misidentification of juvenile remains. The presence of genuine dwarfed taxa has been validated in some cases; adults of the genus Minqaria, for example, are thought to be around 3.5 metres (11 ft) in length. Contrastingly, the genus Pararhabdodon has a projected adult size similar to those of hadrosaurs on other continents, and known remains of Adynomosaurus and hadrosaurs from the Basturs Poble bonebed are of this adult size themselves. Why hadrosaurs of such variable sizes co-exist, despite being subject to the same environmental pressures, remains unclear.
The first material of hadrosaurids were found in the 1850s and named by American paleontologist Joseph Leidy: Trachodon mirabilis from Montana and Thespesius occidentalis from South Dakota in 1856, and Hadrosaurus foulkii from New Jersey in 1859. Numerous additional genera and species were described throughout the following decades, with the first discoveries in Alberta in the late 1890s and early 1900s by Canadian paleontologist Lawrence M. Lambe being ascribed to Trachodon under the subgenus Pteropelyx. The first hadrosaur to preserve a crest on the skull was Saurolophus named in 1912 by American paleontologist Barnum Brown for a skeleton from Alberta. It was to Saurolophus that Lambe found the greatest similarities for new specimens described from Alberta in 1914, which preserved a prominent crest on top of the skull. These remains he assigned to Stephanosaurus, a new genus name for Trachodon marginatus he had named earlier for material from the 1900s expeditions. While the crest of Saurolophus projected backwards, that of the material assigned to Stephanosaurus projected upwards above the eye. Brown followed up in 1914 with the description of some nearly complete skeletons from Alberta that he named Corythosaurus casuarius, which showed a tall and rounded crest atop the skull, and with him questioning the generic status of Stephanosaurus. As Stephanosaurus marginatus was named for incomplete material from the skeleton, Brown did not find the referral of the crested skulls to the taxon justifiable, suggesting they could belong to the genus Corythosaurus but as a distinct species. Brown also separated Trachodontidae into two subfamilies for the first time, uniting the taxa with crested skulls into Saurolophinae while other genera were contained within Trachodontinae.
Lambe subsequently revised the classification of Hadrosauridae (the older name for Trachodontidae) in 1920 following the description of the new genera Cheneosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Prosaurolophus and the discovery of a new skull he referred to Stephanosaurus in the interim, identifying that the crests of Saurolophus and Prosaurolophus were formed of different bones than the other crested genera and as a result separating Corythosaurus, Cheneosaurus, Hypacrosaurus and Stephanosaurus (including the crested skulls) into the new subfamily Stephanosaurinae. In 1923 the crested skulls were again removed from Stephanosaurus, this time by Canadian paleontologist William A. Parks, who established the new taxon Lambeosaurus lambei for them in honor of Lambe who had first described them. As Stephanosaurus could no longer be shown to be a crested hadrosaur, Parks also named the subfamily Lambeosaurinae to replace Stephanosaurinae for the group. This separation was further supported by American paleontologist Charles W. Gilmore the next year, who found that Stephanosaurus could be better referred to the genus Kritosaurus and was a member of Hadrosaurinae rather than Lambeosaurinae. Gilmore could not identify which subfamily Trachodon should belong in due to its very limited material, so he supported the separation of Hadrosauridae into Hadrosaurinae (rather than Trachodontinae), Saurolophinae, and Lambeosaurinae, the latter of which now also included Parasaurolophus.
American paleontologists Richard Swann Lull and Nelda E. Wright published a review article of Hadrosauridae in 1942 where they supported the subfamilies of Gilmore with the addition of Cheneosaurinae, which they named for small-bodied crested genera Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus. Cheneosaurins had small rounded crests while lambeosaurines possessed more elaborate crests of different forms between the genera. Both Lambeosaurinae and Cheneosaurinae were elevated to family rank as Lambeosauridae and Cheneosauridae by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1948 and 1956 respectively. However, American paleontologist Charles Mortram Sternberg in 1953 recognized that the divisions of previous studies were not useful, separating genera based on an arbitrary decision of feature significance, especially the separation of Cheneosaurinae from Lambeosaurinae. As a result, he condensed Hadrosauridae into only two subfamilies: Hadrosaurinae and Lambeosaurinae, with saurolophines being members of Hadrosaurinae, and cheneosaurines being members of Lambeosaurinae. Within Lambeosaurinae he included Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Cheneosaurus, Tetragonosaurus, and Trachodon; a classification he reiterated in 1954.
Work by American paleontologist Peter Dodson in 1975 revised the taxonomy of Lambeosaurinae by recognizing that Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus were not distinct genera but rather juveniles of other taxa that were not old enough to have fully-developed crests. The species of Procheneosaurus were identified as synonyms of either Lambeosaurus or Corythosaurus, while Cheneosaurus was identified as a juvenile of Hypacrosaurus. Following the recognition of cheneosaurs as juveniles of Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Hypacrosaurus, American palaeontologist Michael K. Brett-Surman published a phylogeny of all accepted genera of Hadrosauridae in 1979, and expanded Lambeosaurinae to also include Tsintaosaurus, with Jaxartosaurus and Bactrosaurus as early members, and Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus as one another's closest relatives. A 1990 review of hadrosaurs by American paleontologists David B. Weishampel and John R. Horner was unable to conclude if Tsintaosaurus was a lambeosaurine or hadrosaurine, but added the Asian genera Barsboldia and Nipponosaurus to Lambeosaurinae. The content of Lambeosaurinae expanded over the next decades before the second review by Horner in 2004. During this period, the Asian genera Amurosaurus, Charonosaurus, and Olorotitan were named and added to Lambeosaurinae, and the status of Tsintaosaurus as a lambeosaurine was solidified.
Lambeosaurines have been traditionally split into the tribes or clades Parasaurolophini (Parasaurolophus, Charonosaurus, others (?).) and Lambeosaurini (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 taxa 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. In more recent years Tsintaosaurini (Tsintaosaurus + Pararhabdodon) and Aralosaurini (Aralosaurus + Canardia) have also emerged.
A 2013 study describing the genus Canardia found it to form a grouping with Aralosaurus, therein named as Aralosaurini and defined as the most exclusive clade of hadrosaurs containing both Canardia and Aralosaurus. Though one 2022 study recovered the tribe as monophyletic, most modern analyses fail to recover a natural grouping between the two genera. Daniel Madzia and colleagues registered the name under Phylocode in a 2021 study and redefined it as "the largest clade containing Aralosaurus tuberiferus and Canardia garonnensis but not Lambeosaurus lambei, Parasaurolophus walkeri, and Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus".
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