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Lambeosaurus

Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

Taxonomy

Lambeosaurus was named by Parks (1923). It is the type genus of Lambeosaurinae, Lambeosauridae, Lambeosaurini.

It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Huene (1927), Parks (1935); to Hadrosauridae by Russell (1930), Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Molnar (1980), Russell (1984), Clemens (1986), Carroll (1988), Perrilliat (1993), Longrich (2008); to Lambeosaurini by Sullivan et al. (2011), Prieto-Marquez et al. (2013); to Corythosaurini by Evans et al. (2007), Evans and Reisz (2007), Gates et al. (2007), Godefroit et al. (2008), Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009), Godefroit et al. (2012), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2013), Bolotsky et al. (2014); and to Lambeosaurinae by Parks (1923), Gilmore (1924), Nopcsa (1928), Hay (1930), Gilmore (1933), Parks (1935), Sternberg (1935), Nagao (1936), Sternberg (1936), Riabinin (1939), Wilfarth (1940), Lull and Wright (1942), Sternberg (1953), Sternberg (1954), Langston (1960), Tatarinov (1964), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Dodson (1975), Hopson (1975), Brett-Surman (1979), Morris (1981), Weishampel and Weishampel (1983), Dodson (1983), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Powell (1987), Weishampel and Horner (1990), Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990), Forster and Sereno (1994), Vickaryous and Ryan (1997), Forster (1997), Godefroit et al. (1998), Eberth et al. (2001), Godefroit et al. (2003), Horner et al. (2004), Evans and Reisz (2004), Godefroit et al. (2004), Ryan and Evans (2005), Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006), Mo et al. (2007), Evans et al. (2009), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010), Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012), Ryan et al. (2012), Prieto-Marquez (2013), Bell (2014), Cruzado-Caballero and Powell (2017), Takasaki et al. (2019).

Species

Didanodon altidens, L. clavinitialis (syn. Corythosaurus frontalis), L. lambei (syn. Tetragonosaurus praeceps), L. magnicristatus

Synonyms

Procheneosaurus was named by Matthew (1920).

It was considered a nomen nudum by Sternberg (1953); it was synonymized subjectively with Lambeosaurus by Lund and Gates (2006).

It was assigned to Saurolophinae by Hay (1930); to Cheneosaurinae by Lull and Wright (1942); to Hadrosauridae by Romer (1956), Parsch (1963), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Taquet (1975), Rozhdestvensky (1977); and to Lambeosaurinae by Gilmore (1933), Riabinin (1939), Tatarinov (1964), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Wolberg (1980).
Stephanosaurus was named by Lambe (1914).

It was synonymized subjectively with Kritosaurus by Gilmore (1924), Russell (1930); it was synonymized subjectively with Lambeosaurus by Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966).

It was assigned to Hadrosaurinae by Lambe (1918); to Stephanosaurinae by Lambe (1920); to Trachodontidae by Gilmore (1917), Huene (1927); and to Hadrosauridae by Lambe (1917), Moodie (1930).
Tetragonosaurus was named by Parks (1931).

It was considered a nomen vanum by Hemming (1947); it was synonymized subjectively with Procheneosaurus by Lull and Wright (1942), Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Romer (1966), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Evans (2010).

It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Parks (1935); and to Lambeosaurinae by Sternberg (1935), Nagao (1936), Wilfarth (1940), Sternberg (1953), Sternberg (1954).
Didanodon was named by Osborn (1902).

It was synonymized subjectively with Procheneosaurus by Romer (1956), Tatarinov (1964), Rozhdestvensky (1968); it was synonymized subjectively with Thespesius by Romer (1966); it was synonymized subjectively with Lambeosaurus by Weishampel and Horner (1990), Horner et al. (2004), Lund and Gates (2006).

It was assigned to Hadrosauridae by Russell (1930).
Didanodon altidens was named by Osborn (1902). Its type specimen is NMC 1092.

It was considered a nomen nudum by Lund and Gates (2006).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1902	Didanodon Osborn
1902	Didanodon altidens Osborn
1914	Stephanosaurus Lambe p. 17
1917	Stephanosaurus Gilmore p. 41
1917	Stephanosaurus Lambe p. 65
1918	Stephanosaurus Lambe p. 138
1920	Stephanosaurus Lambe pp. 67-68
1920	Procheneosaurus Matthew p. 542
1923	Lambeosaurus Parks p. 7
1924	Lambeosaurus Gilmore p. 34
1927	Stephanosaurus Huene p. 260
1927	Lambeosaurus Huene p. 261
1928	Lambeosaurus Nopcsa p. 185
1930	Procheneosaurus Hay p. 217
1930	Lambeosaurus Hay p. 218
1930	Stephanosaurus Moodie p. 436–437
1930	Didanodon Russell p. 149
1930	Didanodon altidens Russell p. 149
1930	Lambeosaurus Russell p. 149
1931	Tetragonosaurus Parks p. 4 figs. Pl. 1-2
1933	Lambeosaurus Gilmore p. 62
1933	Procheneosaurus Gilmore p. 62
1935	Lambeosaurus Parks p. 21
1935	Tetragonosaurus Parks p. 193
1935	Tetragonosaurus Sternberg pp. 12-13
1935	Lambeosaurus Sternberg p. 15
1936	Lambeosaurus Nagao p. 213
1936	Tetragonosaurus Nagao p. 213
1936	Lambeosaurus Sternberg p. 654
1939	Procheneosaurus Riabinin p. 12
1939	Lambeosaurus Riabinin p. 15
1940	Lambeosaurus Wilfarth p. 3
1940	Tetragonosaurus Wilfarth p. 10
1942	Lambeosaurus Lull and Wright p. 133
1942	Procheneosaurus Lull and Wright p. 133
1953	Lambeosaurus Sternberg p. 11
1953	Tetragonosaurus Sternberg p. 11
1954	Lambeosaurus Sternberg p. 383
1954	Tetragonosaurus Sternberg p. 383
1956	Lambeosaurus Romer p. 630
1956	Procheneosaurus Romer p. 630
1960	Lambeosaurus Langston p. 342
1963	Procheneosaurus Parsch p. 7
1963	Lambeosaurus Parsch p. 8
1964	Lambeosaurus Kuhn p. 22
1964	Procheneosaurus Kuhn p. 25
1964	Procheneosaurus Tatarinov p. 567
1964	Lambeosaurus Tatarinov p. 568
1966	Lambeosaurus Romer p. 370
1966	Procheneosaurus Romer p. 370
1968	Lambeosaurus Rozhdestvensky
1968	Procheneosaurus Rozhdestvensky
1970	Procheneosaurus Swinton p. 222
1970	Lambeosaurus Swinton p. 224
1974	Lambeosaurus Thulborn p. 173
1974	Procheneosaurus Thulborn p. 173
1975	Lambeosaurus Dodson p. 51
1975	Lambeosaurus Hopson p. 24 fig. 3
1975	Procheneosaurus Taquet p. 508
1977	Procheneosaurus Rozhdestvensky p. 113
1979	Lambeosaurus Brett-Surman p. 561 fig. 1
1980	Lambeosaurus Molnar p. 138
1980	Procheneosaurus Wolberg p. 50
1981	Lambeosaurus Morris p. 454
1983	Lambeosaurus Dodson p. 94
1983	Lambeosaurus Weishampel and Weishampel p. 44
1984	Lambeosaurus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 131
1984	Lambeosaurus Russell p. 25
1986	Lambeosaurus Clemens p. 80
1987	Lambeosaurus Powell p. 150
1988	Lambeosaurus Carroll
1990	Lambeosaurus Chapman and Brett-Surman p. 177
1990	Lambeosaurus Weishampel and Horner p. 557
1993	Lambeosaurus Perrilliat p. 9
1994	Lambeosaurus Forster and Sereno p. 25A
1997	Lambeosaurus Forster p. 297
1997	Lambeosaurus Vickaryous and Ryan p. 490
1998	Lambeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 51
2001	Lambeosaurus Eberth et al. p. 58
2003	Lambeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 149
2004	Lambeosaurus Evans and Reisz p. 55A
2004	Lambeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 148 fig. 6
2004	Lambeosaurus Horner et al. p. 442
2005	Lambeosaurus Ryan and Evans p. 334
2006	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Márquez et al. p. 938
2007	Lambeosaurus Evans and Reisz pp. 386-387 fig. 9
2007	Lambeosaurus Gates et al. pp. 925-927 fig. 10
2007	Lambeosaurus Mo et al. p. 553 fig. 2
2008	Lambeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 67 fig. 1
2008	Lambeosaurus Longrich p. 994
2009	Lambeosaurus Evans et al. p. 1316
2009	Lambeosaurus Pereda-Suberbiola et al. p. 568 fig. 6
2010	Lambeosaurus Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 1510 fig. 4
2010	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 2
2011	Lambeosaurus Sullivan et al. p. 406
2012	Lambeosaurus Godefroit et al. p. 551
2012	Lambeosaurus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380
2012	Lambeosaurus Ryan et al. p. 79
2013	Lambeosaurus Cruzado-Caballero et al.
2013	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Marquez
2013	Lambeosaurus Prieto-Marquez et al.
2014	Lambeosaurus Bell p. 582
2014	Lambeosaurus Bolotsky et al. p. 329
2017	Lambeosaurus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13
2019	Lambeosaurus Takasaki et al. p. 5

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
—	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)

Rank	Name	Author
—	Crocopoda
—	Archosauriformes	Gauthier 1986
—	Eucrocopoda
—	Archosauria	()
informal	Avemetatarsalia
—	Ornithodira
—	Dinosauromorpha
—	Dinosauriformes
—	Dinosauria	()
—	Ornithischia	()
—	Genasauria
—	Cerapoda
—	Ornithopoda	()
—	Clypeodonta
—	Iguanodontia	()
—	Dryomorpha
—	Styracosterna
—	Hadrosauriformes
—	Hadrosauroidea	()
family	Hadrosauridae
subfamily	Lambeosaurinae
tribe	Corythosaurini	Glut 1997
genus	Lambeosaurus

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.

G. †Lambeosaurus Parks 1923

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†Lambeosaurus clavinitialis Sternberg 1935

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Invalid names: Corythosaurus frontalis Parks 1935 [synonym]

†Lambeosaurus lambei Parks 1923

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Invalid names: Tetragonosaurus praeceps Parks 1931 [synonym]

†Lambeosaurus magnicristatus Sternberg 1935

Invalid names: Didanodon Osborn 1902 [synonym], Didanodon altidens Osborn 1902 [nomen nudum], Procheneosaurus Matthew 1920 [synonym], Stephanosaurus Lambe 1914 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

hydroxyapatiteo

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100o

Adult width:

1.0 to < 10o

Adult height:

1.0 to < 10o

Maximum body mass:

3000 kgg

Minimum body mass:

1000 kgg

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:

2005-08-25 05:52:47

Modified:

2005-08-25 07:52:47

Source: g = genus, subo = suborder, o = order

References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875, Benton 1983

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Campanian to the top of the Campanian or 83.50000 to 72.10000 Ma

Collections (19 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Campanian	83.6 - 72.1	Canada (Alberta)	Corythosaurus sp. (70052) L. lambei (70054 70055) Stephanosaurus marginatus (49236)
Late/Upper Campanian	83.5 - 70.6	Canada (Alberta)	Corythosaurus frontalis (46318) Hadrosauridae indet. (64335 74120) L. clavinitialis (51861 51862) L. lambei (49235 49237 59022) L. magnicristatum (51863) L. sp. (58911 58955 59145 59225) Procheneosaurus praeceps (52475) Tetragonosaurus praeceps (46358)