Hadrosaurus (Grec : ἁδρός, hadros + σαυρος, sauros = lézard robuste) est un genre douteux de la famille des hadrosauridés, ou « dinosaures à bec de canard ». En 1858, un squelette d'un spécimen du genre est découvert en Amérique du Nord et devient le premier squelette de dinosaure jamais reconstitué.
| Règne | Animalia |
|---|---|
| Classe | Reptilia |
| Super-ordre | Dinosauria |
| Ordre | † Ornithischia |
| Sous-ordre | † Ornithopoda |
| Super-famille | † Hadrosauroidea |
| Famille | † Hadrosauridae |
Une espèce est citée par Paleobiology Database : Hadrosaurus foulkii [1]. Hadrosaurus breviceps est considéré comme nomen dubium[1].
« Hadrosaurus breviceps was named by Marsh (1889). Its type specimen is YPM 1779 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bearpaw Mountains (PROXY), which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Judith River Formation of Montana.
It was recombined as Trachodon breviceps by Marsh (1896), Hay (1902), von Zittel (1911), Huene (1927) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Kritosaurus breviceps by Lull and Wright (1942), Vialli (1960), Kuhn (1964) and Wolberg (1980); it was considered a nomen dubium by Weishampel and Horner (1990), Hunt and Lucas (1992), Horner et al. (2004), Lund and Gates (2006) and Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006) »
— Hadrosauridae : Histoire taxonomique[1].
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