Hadrosauroidea

 ( Dinosaur Superfamilies ) 

Hadrosauroidea is a clade or superfamily of that includes the "duck-billed" dinosaurs, or Hadrosauridae, and all dinosaurs more closely related to them than to Iguanodon. Their remains have been recovered in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas. Many primitive hadrosauroids, such as the Asian Probactrosaurus and Altirhinus, have traditionally been included in a paraphyly (unnatural grouping) "Iguanodontidae". With cladistics analysis, the traditional Iguanodontidae has been largely disbanded, and probably includes only Iguanodon and perhaps its closest relatives.

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Classification Hadrosauroidea was given a formal phylogenetic definition in the PhyloCode by Daniel Madzia and colleagues in 2021 as "the largest clade containing Hadrosaurus foulkii, but not Iguanodon bernissartensis". The cladogram below follows an analysis by Andrew McDonald, 2012, and shows the position of Hadrosauroidea within Styracosterna:

The cladogram below follows an analysis by Wu Wenhao and Pascal Godefroit (2012):

Cladogram after Prieto-Marquez and Norell (2010):

A phylogenetic analysis performed by Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012) found a large polytomy between all hadrosauroids that are more derived than Probactrosaurus but less derived than Hadrosauridae. The exclusion of Claosaurus, Jeyawati, Levnesovia, Nanyangosaurus, Shuangmiaosaurus and Telmatosaurus from the analysis resulted in a more resolved topology:

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See also

• Timeline of hadrosaur research

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