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Hadrosaurus
Taxonomy
Hadrosaurus was named by Leidy (1858). It is the type genus of Hadrosauridae, Hadrosaurinae.
It was synonymized subjectively with Trachodon by Leidy (1868), Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Lambe (1899), Hay (1902), Hatcher (1902), Lull (1903), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913) and Huene (1927); it was considered a nomen dubium by Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Sauria by Leidy (1860) and Leidy (1865); to Orthopoda by Cope (1866); to Dinosauria by Cope (1869); to Iguanodontidae by Huxley (1870); to Dinosauria by Cope (1875); to Madrosauridae by Sauvage (1882); to Ornithopoda by Quenstedt (1882) and Gadow (1897); to Ornithopoda by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Hadrosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Trachyodontidae by Sauvage (1909); to Trachodontidae by Matthew (1915) and Lull (1924); to Trachodontinae by Brown (1914) and Nopcsa (1928); to Hadrosaurinae by Prieto-Márquez (2010); to Hadrosaurinae by Hay (1930), Sternberg (1936), Lull and Wright (1942), Sternberg (1953), Sternberg (1954), Young (1958), Langston (1960), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1966), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Brett-Surman (1979), McIntosh (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Dodson (1983), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990), Dodson (1997), Godefroit et al. (1998), Hernandez et al. (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Kirkland et al. (2006), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010) and Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); to Hadrosauridae by Cope (1869), Dollo (1882), Cope (1883), Cope (1883), Cope (1883), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Nopcsa (1900), Russell (1930), Rapp (1944), Miller (1955), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Miller (1967), Thulborn (1974), Madsen and Miller (1979), Lehman (1981), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Horner (1992), Prieto-Marquez et al. (2003), Weishampel (2006), Buffetaut (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2011) and Prieto-Marquez (2013); to Brachylophosaurini by Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017); and to Hadrosauridae by Verdú et al. (2021).
It was synonymized subjectively with Trachodon by Leidy (1868), Lydekker (1888), Lydekker (1888), Marsh (1895), Marsh (1896), Lambe (1899), Hay (1902), Hatcher (1902), Lull (1903), Huene (1909), von Zittel (1911), Tornier (1913) and Huene (1927); it was considered a nomen dubium by Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006).
It was assigned to Sauria by Leidy (1860) and Leidy (1865); to Orthopoda by Cope (1866); to Dinosauria by Cope (1869); to Iguanodontidae by Huxley (1870); to Dinosauria by Cope (1875); to Madrosauridae by Sauvage (1882); to Ornithopoda by Quenstedt (1882) and Gadow (1897); to Ornithopoda by Gadow (1898) and Gadow (1901); to Hadrosauridae by Nopcsa (1901); to Trachyodontidae by Sauvage (1909); to Trachodontidae by Matthew (1915) and Lull (1924); to Trachodontinae by Brown (1914) and Nopcsa (1928); to Hadrosaurinae by Prieto-Márquez (2010); to Hadrosaurinae by Hay (1930), Sternberg (1936), Lull and Wright (1942), Sternberg (1953), Sternberg (1954), Young (1958), Langston (1960), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1966), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Brett-Surman (1979), McIntosh (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Dodson (1983), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990), Dodson (1997), Godefroit et al. (1998), Hernandez et al. (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Kirkland et al. (2006), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010) and Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); to Hadrosauridae by Cope (1869), Dollo (1882), Cope (1883), Cope (1883), Cope (1883), Dollo (1884), Marsh (1884), Marsh (1885), Zittel (1890), Winkler (1893), Nopcsa (1900), Russell (1930), Rapp (1944), Miller (1955), Romer (1956), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Miller (1967), Thulborn (1974), Madsen and Miller (1979), Lehman (1981), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Horner (1992), Prieto-Marquez et al. (2003), Weishampel (2006), Buffetaut (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2011) and Prieto-Marquez (2013); to Brachylophosaurini by Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017); and to Hadrosauridae by Verdú et al. (2021).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1858 | Hadrosaurus Leidy pp. 215-218 |
| 1860 | Hadrosaurus Leidy p. 141 |
| 1865 | Hadrosaurus Leidy pp. 118-119 |
| 1866 | Hadrosaurus Cope p. 317 |
| 1869 | Hadrosaurus Cope p. 91 |
| 1870 | Hadrosaurus Huxley p. 35 |
| 1875 | Hadrosaurus Cope p. 40 |
| 1882 | Hadrosaurus Dollo |
| 1882 | Hadrosaurus Quenstedt p. 188 |
| 1882 | Madrosaurus Sauvage p. 35 |
| 1883 | Hadrosaurus Cope p. 99 |
| 1884 | Hadrosaurus Dollo p. 298 |
| 1884 | Hadrosaurus Marsh p. 69 |
| 1885 | Hadrosaurus Marsh p. 764 |
| 1890 | Hadrosaurus Zittel p. 763 |
| 1893 | Hadrosaurus Winkler p. 113 |
| 1897 | Hadrosaurus Gadow p. 205 |
| 1898 | Hadrosaurus Gadow p. 23 |
| 1900 | Hadrosaurus Nopcsa p. 556 |
| 1901 | Hadrosaurus Gadow p. 429 |
| 1901 | Hadrosaurus Nopcsa p. 212 |
| 1909 | Hydrosaurus Sauvage p. 377 |
| 1914 | Hadrosaurus Brown p. 564 |
| 1915 | Hadrosaurus Matthew p. 28 |
| 1924 | Hadrosaurus Lull p. 241 |
| 1928 | Hadrosaurus Nopcsa p. 184 |
| 1930 | Hadrosaurus Hay p. 209 |
| 1930 | Hadrosaurus Russell p. 137 |
| 1936 | Hadrosaurus Sternberg p. 654 |
| 1942 | Hadrosaurus Lull and Wright p. 133 |
| 1944 | Hadrosaurus Rapp p. 287 |
| 1953 | Hadrosaurus Sternberg p. 11 |
| 1954 | Hadrosaurus Sternberg p. 383 |
| 1955 | Hadrosaurus Miller, Jr. p. 911 |
| 1956 | Hadrosaurus Romer p. 630 |
| 1958 | Hadrosaurus Young p. 106 |
| 1960 | Hadrosaurus Langston p. 343 fig. 159 |
| 1964 | Hadrosaurus Kuhn p. 19 |
| 1964 | Hadrosaurus Tatarinov p. 561 |
| 1966 | Hadrosaurus Kuhn p. 103 |
| 1966 | Hadrosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1967 | Hadrosaurus Miller p. 233 |
| 1968 | Hadrosaurus Rozhdestvensky |
| 1974 | Hadrosaurus Thulborn p. 173 |
| 1979 | Hadrosaurus Brett-Surman p. 561 fig. 1 |
| 1979 | Hadrosaurus Madsen and Miller p. 5 |
| 1981 | Hadrosaurus Lehman p. 198 |
| 1981 | Hadrosaurus McIntosh p. 31 |
| 1983 | Hadrosaurus Dodson p. 94 |
| 1983 | Hadrosaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44 |
| 1984 | Hadrosaurus Russell p. 24 |
| 1986 | Hadrosaurus Clemens p. 80 |
| 1988 | Hadrosaurus Carroll |
| 1990 | Hadrosaurus Chapman and Brett-Surman p. 177 |
| 1990 | Hadrosaurus Weishampel and Horner p. 556 |
| 1992 | Hadrosaurus Horner p. 15 |
| 1997 | Hadrosaurus Dodson p. 12 |
| 1998 | Hadrosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 51 |
| 2003 | Hadrosaurus Hernandez et al. p. 61A |
| 2003 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Marquez et al. p. 88A |
| 2004 | Hadrosaurus Horner et al. p. 440 |
| 2006 | Hadrosaurus Kirkland et al. pp. 309-310 |
| 2006 | Hadrosaurus Weishampel p. 151 |
| 2009 | Hadrosaurus Buffetaut |
| 2010 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20 |
| 2010 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3 |
| 2011 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Márquez p. 65 |
| 2012 | Hadrosaurus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392 |
| 2013 | Hadrosaurus Prieto-Marquez |
| 2017 | Hadrosaurus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13 |
| 2021 | Hadrosaurus Verdú et al. p. 10 fig. 9 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| A. Prieto-Márquez 2011 | The same as for species. |