Lambeosaurinae
Lambeosaurinae /ˌlæmbiəˈsɔːraɪniː/ is a group of crested hadrosauroid dinosaurs.

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- lambeosaurinePBDB
- Sits inside
- HadrosauridaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithopoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
222 occurrences of Lambeosaurinae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
222 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
42 formations
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group55
- Two Medicine Formation · Montana Group23
- Cerro del Pueblo Formation · Difunta Group14
- Kirtland Formation13
- Horseshoe Canyon Formation · Edmonton Group11
- Conques Formation · Tremp Group10
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The named rock units Lambeosaurinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Lambeosaurinae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lambeosaurinae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
478 taxa- Hadrosauridae33 sites
- Theropoda26 sites
- Tyrannosauridae24 sites
- Corythosaurus casuarius17 sites
- Hypacrosaurus stebingeri17 sites
- Hypacrosaurus altispinus16 sites
- Ankylosauridae14 sites
- Hadrosaurinae11 sites
- Ornithomimidae11 sites
- Parasaurolophus11 sites
- Lambeosaurus lambei10 sites
- Testudines10 sites
- Trionychidae9 sites
- Ceratopsidae8 sites
- Nodosauridae8 sites
- Baenidae7 sites
- Crocodylia7 sites
- Dinosauria7 sites
- Eusuchia7 sites
- Lepisosteidae7 sites
- Lepisosteus7 sites
- Adocus6 sites
- Anura6 sites
- Basilemys6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 205 sites for Lambeosaurinae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
112 references- Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America17
- Quarries of Dinosaur Provincial Park14
- Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta13
- Cranial morphology and variation in Hypacrosaurus stebingeri (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae)7
- Stratigraphic distribution of hadrosaurids in the Upper Cretaceous Fruitland, Kirtland, and Ojo Alamo formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico7
- The hadrosaurian record from Mexico6
- Diversity, relationships, and biogeography of the lambeosaurine dinosaurs from the European archipelago, with description of the new aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis6
- Faunal assemblages from the upper Horseshoe Canyon Formation, an early Maastrichtian cool-climate assemblage from Alberta, with special reference to the Albertosaurus sarcophagus bonebed5
- Fossil Vertebrate Collections5
- Diversity of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mexico4
- The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung4
- A new trachodont dinosaur, Hypacrosaurus, from the Edmonton Cretaceous of Alberta4
Each of the 222 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 100 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content3
Picture of Lambeosaurinae
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Zissoudisctrucker
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Lambeosaurinae indet. · RSKM:RSKM P3217.506
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Olof Moleman
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHadrosauridae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Parks 1923)