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Saurolophinae

Osteichthyes - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy

Saurolophinae was named by Brown (1914). Its type is Saurolophus.

It was reranked as the family Saurolophidae by Huene (1948), Huene (1959); it was synonymized subjectively with Hadrosaurinae by Sternberg (1953), Brett-Surman (1979), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Forster (1997); it was synonymized subjectively with Hadrosauridae by Kuhn (1964).

It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Brown (1914), Parks (1922), Nopcsa (1928), Huene (1934), Huene (1934), Nagao (1936), Kuhn (1946); to Trachodontoidea by Huene (1948); to Hadrosauria by Huene (1959); to Saurolophidae by Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010); and to Hadrosauridae by Lambe (1918), Gilmore (1919), Lambe (1920), Gilmore (1924), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1933), Wilfarth (1940), Lull and Wright (1942), Young (1958), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1966), Russell and Chamney (1967), Taquet (1975), Horner (1992), Vickaryous and Ryan (1997), Prieto-Márquez (2012), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Prieto-Marquez (2013), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2015), Lehman et al. (2016), Zhang et al. (2019), Dalla Vecchia (2020), Kobayashi et al. (2021), Yao et al. (2026).

Subtaxa

Ahshislesaurus, Barsboldia, Glishades, Gongshuilong, Laiyangosaurus, Rhinorex

Entered

by M. Carrano on 2003-04-10; modified by M. Carrano on 2022-12-02

Synonyms

Glishades was named by Prieto-Márquez (2010).

It was considered a nomen dubium by Campione et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Hadrosauroidea by Prieto-Márquez (2010); and to Hadrosauroidea by Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012).
Glishades ericksoni was named by Prieto-Márquez (2010). Its type specimen is AMNH 27414, a partial skull (left and right premaxillae), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is South Milk River (AMNH), which is in a Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana.

It was considered a nomen dubium by Campione et al. (2013).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1914	Saurolophinae Brown p. 564
1918	Saurolophinae Lambe p. 138
1919	Saurolophinae Gilmore p. 64
1920	Saurolophinae Lambe pp. 67-68
1922	Saurolophinae Parks p. 5
1924	Saurolophinae Gilmore p. 34
1928	Saurolophinae Nopcsa p. 185
1930	Saurolophinae Hay p. 216
1933	Saurolophinae Gilmore p. 62
1934	Saurolophinae Huene p. 15
1936	Saurolophinae Nagao p. 213
1940	Saurolophinae Wilfarth p. 3
1942	Saurolophinae Lull and Wright p. 133
1946	Saurolophinae Kuhn p. 66
1948	Saurolophidae Huene p. 94
1958	Saurolophinae Young p. 56
1959	Saurolophidae Huene p. 122
1964	Saurolophinae Tatarinov p. 565
1966	Saurolophinae Kuhn p. 103
1967	Saurolophinae Russell and Chamney p. 12
1975	Saurolophinae Taquet p. 508
1992	Saurolophinae Horner p. 16
1997	Saurolophinae Vickaryous and Ryan p. 490
2010	Saurolophinae Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010	Glishades Prieto-Márquez p. 3
2010	Glishades ericksoni Prieto-Márquez p. 3 fig. 1
2010	Saurolophinae Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010	Saurolophinae Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2011	Glishades ericksoni Prieto-Márquez p. 774
2012	Saurolophinae Prieto-Márquez p. 529 fig. 14
2012	Glishades ericksoni Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380
2012	Glishades Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2012	Saurolophinae Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 392
2013	Saurolophinae Prieto-Marquez
2015	Saurolophinae Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 226
2015	Glishades ericksoni Verdú et al. p. 256
2016	Glishades ericksoni Fuentes Vidarte et al. p. 440
2016	Saurolophinae Lehman et al. p. 346
2018	Glishades ericksoni Madzia et al. p. 968
2019	Saurolophinae Zhang et al.
2020	Saurolophinae Dalla Vecchia p. 612
2021	Saurolophinae Kobayashi et al. p. 9
2026	Saurolophinae Yao et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()
—	Tetrapoda
—	Reptiliomorpha
—	Anthracosauria
subclass	Amphibiosauria	Kuhn 1967
—	Cotylosauria	()
—	Amniota
—	Sauropsida
class	Reptilia
subclass	Eureptilia	()
—	Romeriida
—	Diapsida	()
—	Archosauromorpha	(Huene 1946)
—	Crocopoda

Rank	Name	Author
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Neornithischia	()
—	Pyrodontia
—	Cerapoda
suborder	Ornithopoda
infraorder	Iguanodontia
—	Euiguanodontia
—	Dryomorpha
—	Ankylopollexia
—	Styracosterna
—	Hadrosauriformes
—	Hadrosauroidea	()
family	Hadrosauridae
subfamily	Saurolophinae
subfamily	Saurolophinae

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.

Subfm. †Saurolophinae Brown 1914

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G. †Ahshislesaurus Dalman et al. 2025

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†Ahshislesaurus wimani Dalman et al. 2025

G. †Barsboldia Maryanska and Osmólska 1981

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†Barsboldia sicinskii Maryanska and Osmólska 1981

G. †Gongshuilong Yao et al. 2026

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†Gongshuilong fanwei Yao et al. 2026

G. †Laiyangosaurus Zhang et al. 2019

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†Laiyangosaurus youngi Zhang et al. 2019

G. †Rhinorex Gates and Scheetz 2014

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†Rhinorex condrupus Gates and Scheetz 2014

Invalid names: Glishades Prieto-Márquez 2010 [nomen dubium]

Diagnosis

Reference	Diagnosis
B. F. Nopcsa 1928	very numerous teeth; males with median horn-like protuberance on skull
F. v. Huene 1948	Like Trachodontidae, but nasals thickened or forming boss; skull anteriorly descending in straight line; termination of ischium thickened at anterior side.

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yeso

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Architecture:

compact or denseo

Ontogeny:

accretion, modification of partso

Grouping:

gregariouso

Environment:

terrestrialo

Locomotion:

actively mobileo

Life habit:

ground dwellingo

Diet:

herbivoresubo

Reproduction:

oviparouso

Dispersal:

direct/internalo

Dispersal 2:

mobileo

Created:

2009-01-03 20:40:05

Modified:

2009-01-03 22:40:05

Source: subo = suborder, o = order

References: Marsh 1875, Kiessling 2004, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Late/Upper Maastrichtian or 83.60000 to 66.00000 Ma

Collections (34 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	China (Shandong)	Laiyangosaurus youngi (52943)
Early/Lower Campanian - Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Utah)	Saurolophinae indet. (167894)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Sonora)	Saurolophinae indet. (227167)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Montana)	Glishades ericksoni (70051)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (New Mexico)	Ahshislesaurus wimani (275989) Hadrosaurinae indet. (62318) Kritosaurus navajovius (53980)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Coahuila)	Dinosauria indet. (79613) Hadrosauridae indet. (99139) Hadrosaurinae indet. (24261 76743) Kritosaurus sp. (24258 170943) Saurolophinae indet. (68039 79616 170939 227155) Saurolophinae indet., Lambeosaurinae indet. (154244)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Chihuahua)	Kritosaurus sp. (227230)
Middle Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Utah)	Rhinorex condrupus (161992)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Coahuila)	Kritosaurini indet. (170938) Saurolophinae indet. (170937 170940)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	USA (Texas)	Hadrosauridae indet. (22709)
Middle Campanian - Late/Upper Campanian	83.6 - 72.2	Mexico (Chihuahua)	Kritosaurini indet. (170941)
Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	Mexico (Coahuila)	Hadrosaurinae indet. (69800)
Late/Upper Campanian - Late/Upper Maastrichtian	83.6 - 66.0	Mexico (Sonora)	Saurolophinae indet. (170931 227254)
Late/Upper Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (New Mexico)	Kritosaurus navajovius (76747)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	China (Jiangxi)	Gongshuilong fanwei (278619)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (Texas)	Saurolophinae indet. (145482)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	Mongolia (Omnogov)	Barsboldia sp. (277798) Saurolophus angustirostris (38021)
Maastrichtian	72.2 - 66.0	USA (California)	Hadrosauridae indet. (24845)