Brachylophosaurini

Brachylophosaurini is a tribe of saurolophine hadrosaurs with known material being from N. America and potentially Asia. It contains at least four taxa; Acristavus (from Montana and Utah), Brachylophosaurus (from Montana and Alberta), Maiasaura (also from Montana), and Probrachylophosaurus (also from Montana). A hadrosaur from the Amur river, Wulagasaurus, might be a member of this tribe, but this is disputed. The group was defined by Terry A. Gates and colleagues in 2011.[1][2]

Brachylophosaurins
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,[1] 79–76.5 Ma
Possible Maastrichtian record
Brachylophosaurus specimen "Roberta"
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Order: Ornithischia
Suborder: Ornithopoda
Family: Hadrosauridae
Clade: Euhadrosauria
Subfamily: Saurolophinae
Tribe: Brachylophosaurini
Gates et al., 2011
Type species
Brachylophosaurus canadensis
Genera

The clade Brachylophosaurini was defined as "Hadrosaurine ornithopods more closely related to Brachylophosaurus, Maiasaura, or Acristavus than to Gryposaurus or Saurolophus".[1]

See also

References

  1. Gates, T. A.; Horner, J. R.; Hanna, R. R.; Nelson, C. R. (2011). "New unadorned hadrosaurine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Campanian of North America". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (4): 798. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.577854.
  2. http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201204/P020120423369434645647.pdf


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