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Lambeosaurinae /ˌlæmbiəˈsɔːraɪniː/ (meaning 'lambe's lizards') is an extinct group of crested hadrosauroid .
Lambe subsequently revised the classification of Hadrosauridae (the older name for Trachodontidae) in 1920 following the description of the new genera Cheneosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Prosaurolophus and the discovery of a new skull he referred to Stephanosaurus in the interim, identifying that the crests of Saurolophus and Prosaurolophus were formed of different bones than the other crested genera and as a result separating Corythosaurus, Cheneosaurus, Hypacrosaurus and Stephanosaurus (including the crested skulls) into the new subfamily Stephanosaurinae. In 1923 the crested skulls were again removed from Stephanosaurus, this time by Canadian paleontologist William A. Parks, who established the new taxon Lambeosaurus lambei for them in honor of Lambe who had first described them. As Stephanosaurus could no longer be shown to be a crested hadrosaur, Parks also named the subfamily Lambeosaurinae to replace Stephanosaurinae for the group. This separation was further supported by American paleontologist Charles W. Gilmore the next year, who found that Stephanosaurus could be better referred to the genus Kritosaurus and was a member of Hadrosaurinae rather than Lambeosaurinae. Gilmore could not identify which subfamily Trachodon should belong in due to its very limited material, so he supported the separation of Hadrosauridae into Hadrosaurinae (rather than Trachodontinae), Saurolophinae, and Lambeosaurinae, the latter of which now also included Parasaurolophus.
American paleontologists Richard Swann Lull and Nelda E. Wright published a review article of Hadrosauridae in 1942 where they supported the subfamilies of Gilmore with the addition of Cheneosaurinae, which they named for small-bodied crested genera Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus. Cheneosaurins had small rounded crests while lambeosaurines possessed more elaborate crests of different forms between the genera. Both Lambeosaurinae and Cheneosaurinae were elevated to family rank as Lambeosauridae and Cheneosauridae by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1948 and 1956 respectively. However, American paleontologist Charles Mortram Sternberg in 1953 recognized that the divisions of previous studies were not useful, separating genera based on an arbitrary decision of feature significance, especially the separation of Cheneosaurinae from Lambeosaurinae. As a result, he condensed Hadrosauridae into only two subfamilies: Hadrosaurinae and Lambeosaurinae, with saurolophines being members of Hadrosaurinae, and cheneosaurines being members of Lambeosaurinae. Within Lambeosaurinae he included Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Cheneosaurus, Tetragonosaurus, and Trachodon; a classification he reiterated in 1954.
Work by American paleontologist Peter Dodson in 1975 revised the taxonomy of Lambeosaurinae by recognizing that Cheneosaurus and Procheneosaurus were not distinct genera but rather juveniles of other taxa that were not old enough to have fully-developed crests. The species of Procheneosaurus were identified as synonyms of either Lambeosaurus or Corythosaurus, while Cheneosaurus was identified as a juvenile of Hypacrosaurus. Following the recognition of cheneosaurs as juveniles of Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, and Hypacrosaurus, American palaeontologist Michael K. Brett-Surman published a phylogeny of all accepted genera of Hadrosauridae in 1979, and expanded Lambeosaurinae to also include Tsintaosaurus, with Jaxartosaurus and Bactrosaurus as early members, and Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus and Hypacrosaurus as one another's closest relatives. A 1990 review of hadrosaurs by American paleontologists David B. Weishampel and John R. Horner was unable to conclude if Tsintaosaurus was a lambeosaurine or hadrosaurine, but added the Asian genera Barsboldia and Nipponosaurus to Lambeosaurinae. The content of Lambeosaurinae expanded over the next decades before the second review by Horner in 2004. During this period, the Asian genera Amurosaurus, Charonosaurus, and Olorotitan were named and added to Lambeosaurinae, and the status of Tsintaosaurus as a lambeosaurine was solidified.
Lambeosaurines have been traditionally split into the tribes or clades Parasaurolophini ( Parasaurolophus, Charonosaurus, others (?).) and Lambeosaurini ( Corythosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Lambeosaurus, others.). Corythosaurini (synonym of Lambeosaurini, see below) and Parasaurolophini as terms entered the formal literature in Evans and Reisz's 2007 redescription of Lambeosaurus magnicristatus. Corythosaurini was defined as all taxon more closely related to Corythosaurus casuarius than to Parasaurolophus walkeri, and Parasaurolophini as all those taxa closer to P. walkeri than to C. casuarius. In this study, Charonosaurus and Parasaurolophus are parasaurolophins, and Corythosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Lambeosaurus, Nipponosaurus, and Olorotitan are corythosaurins. However, later researchers pointed out that due to the rules of priority set forth by the ICZN, Any tribe containing Lambeosaurus is properly named Lambeosaurini, and that therefore the name "Corythosaurini" is a junior synonym, and the definition had Corythosaurus casuarius changed to Lambeosaurus lambei, and the same for Parasaurolophini.Sullivan, R., Jasinski, S.E., Guenther, M. and Lucas, S.G. (2009). "The first lambeosaurin (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico." New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 53: 405-417. [1] In more recent years Tsintaosaurini ( Tsintaosaurus + Pararhabdodon) and Aralosaurini ( Aralosaurus + Canardia) have also emerged.
Numerous members of the clade Lambeosaurinae are known from Europe, dating to the end of the Cretaceous period. These various named taxa have traditionally been found to group into numerous different lambeosaur lineages, including Aralosaurini, Tsintaosaurini, Lambeosaurini, and Parasaurolophini. However, a study by Nick Longrich and colleagues proposed European lambeosaurs to form a singular monophyletic group, therein named Arenysaurini, based upon a phylogenetic analysis incorporating data based on geographic origin. They phylogenetically defined the tribe as all hadrosaurids closer to Arenysaurus ardevoli than Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, Parasaurolophus walkeri, or Lambeosaurus lambei. In addition to the various named genera, indeterminate remains from across the continent including the Basturs Poble bonebed were proposed to represent arenysaurs.
The existence of a tsintaosaur clade of lambeosaurines was first recognized by palaeontologists Albert Prieto-Márquez and Johnathan R. Wagner, who in 2009 published a paper recognizing a phylogenetic relationship between Tsintaosaurus and Pararhabdodon based both on shared anatomical traits and a phylogenetic analysis. A 2013 study by Prieto-Márquez corroborated the existence of this grouping, and coined the tribe Tsintaosaurini to refer to it. The type genus is Tsintaosaurus, and it was defined as the smallest clade containing Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus and Pararhabdodon isonensis. Several studies since have corroborated the existence of the clade, though some others have failed to recover it, instead finding the two genera in a polytomy of basal lambeosaurs. A 2021 paper by Daniel Madzia and other ornithischian researchers, focused on a revising ornithischian nomenclature and converting existing group names into Phylocode-compliant clades, re-formalized the coining of Tsintaosaurini and revised its definition to be the most inclusive group including T. spinorhinus and P. isonensis, but not Aralosaurus tuberiferus, Lambeosaurus lambei, or Parasaurolophus walkeri. Longrich and colleagues instead consider the two genera unrelated, with Pararhabdodon being part of Arenysaurini.
The term Corythosaurini was first used by Brett-Surman in 1989, who characterized the taxon via reference to the premaxilary expansion into a hollow helmet-like cranial crest, as well as higher neural spines. The clade was formally defined via phylogenetic analysis by Evans and Reisz in 2007, and this was confirmed by multiple other analyses. In 2011, Sullivan et al. observed that by the rules of priority set by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the name of the tribe ought to be Lambeosaurini due to its containing the defining type genus ( Lambeosaurus) of its superior taxon (Lambeosaurinae). It is defined as all lambeosaurines closer to Lambeosaurus lambei than to Parasaurolophus walkeri, Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus, or Aralosaurus tuberiferus.
For unknown reasons, lambeosaurines largely disappeared from North America around the Campanian/Maastrichtian boundary (the last remaining confirmed American member being Hypacrosaurus), but continued their dominance in Laurasia up to the end of the Cretaceous, with some members such as Ajnabia and Minqaria even colonizing northern Africa from Europe. However, fragmentary remains, including a partial humerus, resembling those of lambeosaurines have been reported from the late Maastrichtian-aged New Egypt Formation of New Jersey, USA. If these are lambeosaurine remains, these specimens are unique both for representing one of the very few records of lambeosaurines from the landmass of Appalachia (suggesting that lambeosaurines had managed to migrate eastwards to Appalachia during the Maastrichtian, following the partial closure of the Western Interior Seaway), and potentially representing one of the latest records of the group from North America.
Phylogeny
The following cladogram was recovered in a 2022 phylogenetic analysis by Xing Hai, and colleagues.
Distribution
Lambeosaurines originated on the continent of Laurasia during the Late Cretaceous, being initially found throughout modern Europe and Asia. Around the Campanian stage, lambeosaurines of the tribe Corythosauria colonized the landmass of Laramidia (modern western North America) via Beringia and spread as far south as Mexico, radiating into a diverse array of a body plans, including famous taxa such as Parasaurolophus and Lambeosaurus. They appear to have also colonized the eastern landmass of Appalachia at some point, based on indeterminate lambeosaurine remains from the late Campanian/Maastrichtian-aged Kanguk Formation of Nunavut.
See also
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