Hadrosaurus Leidy 1858 (hadrosaurine)

Reptilia - Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae

Alternative spellings: Hydrosaurus, Madrosaurus

Full reference: J. Leidy. 1858. [On the bones of a huge herbivorous saurian near Haddonfield]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10:215-218

Parent taxon: Brachylophosaurini according to P. Cruzado-Caballero and J. E. Powell 2017

See also Brett-Surman 1979, Brown 1914, Buffetaut 2009, Carroll 1988, Chapman and Brett-Surman 1990, Clemens 1986, Cope 1866, Cope 1869, Cope 1869, Cope 1875, Cope 1883, Cope 1883, Cope 1883, Dodson 1983, Dodson 1997, Dollo 1882, Dollo 1884, Gadow 1897, Gadow 1898, Gadow 1901, Godefroit et al. 1998, Hatcher 1902, Hay 1902, Hay 1930, Hernandez et al. 2003, Horner 1992, Horner et al. 2004, Huene 1909, Huene 1927, Huxley 1870, Kirkland et al. 2006, Kuhn 1964, Kuhn 1966, Lambe 1899, Langston 1960, Lehman 1981, Leidy 1860, Leidy 1865, Leidy 1868, Lull 1903, Lull 1924, Lull and Wright 1942, Lydekker 1888, Lydekker 1888, Madsen and Miller 1979, Marsh 1884, Marsh 1885, Marsh 1895, Marsh 1896, Matthew 1915, McIntosh 1981, Miller 1967, Miller 1955, Nopcsa 1900, Nopcsa 1901, Nopcsa 1928, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2010, Prieto-Márquez 2011, Prieto-Marquez 2013, Prieto-Marquez and Salinas 2010, Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 2010, Prieto-Marquez et al. 2003, Prieto-Márquez et al. 2006, Quenstedt 1882, Ramírez-Velasco et al. 2012, Rapp 1944, Romer 1956, Romer 1966, Rozhdestvensky 1968, Russell 1930, Russell 1984, Sauvage 1882, Sauvage 1909, Sternberg 1936, Sternberg 1953, Sternberg 1954, Tatarinov 1964, Thulborn 1974, Tornier 1913, Verdú et al. 2021, von Zittel 1911, Weishampel 2006, Weishampel and Horner 1990, Weishampel and Weishampel 1983, Winkler 1893, Young 1958 and Zittel 1890

Sister taxa: Acristavus, Brachylophosaurus, Maiasaura, Ornatops, Probrachylophosaurus, Wulagasaurus

Subtaxa: Hadrosaurus foulkii

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Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Canada (2: Alberta collections), Kazakhstan (1), United States (6: Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina)

Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence

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