Hadrosauroidea
Appearance
Hadrosauroids Temporal range: Cretaceous
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Superfamily: | 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
- Superfamily Hadrosauroidea
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Norman (2002) and Godefroit, Li & Shang (2005).
Hadrosauroidea |--Penelopognathus |--+--Altirhinus | `--Eolambia `--+--Protohadros `--+--Probactrosaurus `--Hadrosauridae |--Telmatosaurus `--+--Bactrosaurus `--Euhadrosauria |--Hadrosaurinae `--Lambeosaurinae