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Hadrosauroidea

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Hadrosauroids
Temporal range: Cretaceous
Ouranosaurus
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Hadrosauroidea

Cope, 1869
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Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or hadrosaurids, and their close relatives. Many primitive hadrosauroids, such as the sail-backed Ouranosaurus, have traditionally been included in a paraphyletic (unnatural grouping) "Iguanodontidae". With cladistic analysis, the traditional Iguanodontidae has been largely disbanded, and probably includes only Iguanodon and perhaps its closest relatives.

Classification

Taxonomy

Phylogeny

Cladogram after Norman (2002) and Godefroit, Li & Shang (2005).

Hadrosauroidea
|--Penelopognathus
|--+--Altirhinus
|  `--Eolambia
`--+--Protohadros
   `--+--Probactrosaurus
      `--Hadrosauridae
         |--Telmatosaurus
         `--+--Bactrosaurus
            `--Euhadrosauria
               |--Hadrosaurinae
               `--Lambeosaurinae