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Kritosaurus
Taxonomy
Kritosaurus was named by Brown (1910). Its type is Kritosaurus navajovius.
It was synonymized subjectively with Hadrosaurus by Brett-Surman (1979), McIntosh (1981), Dodson (1983) and Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990); it was considered a nomen dubium by Hunt and Lucas (1993); it was considered a nomen dubium by Horner et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Brown (1910) and Gilmore (1916); to Trachodontinae by Brown (1914) and Parks (1920); to Protrachodontidae by Nopcsa (1923); to Hadrosauridae by Russell (1930), Russell (1935), Romer (1956), Russell (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Waldman (1969), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Molnar (1980), Bonaparte (1986) and Lehman (2001); to Hadrosaurinae by Lambe (1918), Lambe (1920), Gilmore (1924), Gilmore (1935), Lull and Wright (1942), Sternberg (1954), Langston (1960), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Brambilla (1972), Hopson (1975), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Bonaparte (1984), Powell (1987), Forster and Sereno (1994), Bonaparte (1996), Williamson (2000), Eberth et al. (2001), Hernandez et al. (2003), Kirkland et al. (2006) and Gates et al. (2007); to Saurolophinae by Young (1958), Casamiquela (1964), Horner (1992), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010) and Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); and to Kritosaurini by Prieto-Marquez (2013).
It was synonymized subjectively with Hadrosaurus by Brett-Surman (1979), McIntosh (1981), Dodson (1983) and Chapman and Brett-Surman (1990); it was considered a nomen dubium by Hunt and Lucas (1993); it was considered a nomen dubium by Horner et al. (2004).
It was assigned to Trachodontidae by Brown (1910) and Gilmore (1916); to Trachodontinae by Brown (1914) and Parks (1920); to Protrachodontidae by Nopcsa (1923); to Hadrosauridae by Russell (1930), Russell (1935), Romer (1956), Russell (1964), Kuhn (1964), Romer (1966), Waldman (1969), Swinton (1970), Thulborn (1974), Molnar (1980), Bonaparte (1986) and Lehman (2001); to Hadrosaurinae by Lambe (1918), Lambe (1920), Gilmore (1924), Gilmore (1935), Lull and Wright (1942), Sternberg (1954), Langston (1960), Rozhdestvensky (1968), Brambilla (1972), Hopson (1975), Maryanska and Osmólska (1984), Bonaparte (1984), Powell (1987), Forster and Sereno (1994), Bonaparte (1996), Williamson (2000), Eberth et al. (2001), Hernandez et al. (2003), Kirkland et al. (2006) and Gates et al. (2007); to Saurolophinae by Young (1958), Casamiquela (1964), Horner (1992), Prieto-Márquez (2010), Prieto-Marquez and Salinas (2010), Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2010) and Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); and to Kritosaurini by Prieto-Marquez (2013).
Species
K. horneri, K. navajovius (type species)
Sister genera
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Kritosaurus Brown |
| 1914 | Kritosaurus Brown p. 564 |
| 1916 | Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 281 |
| 1918 | Kritosaurus Lambe p. 138 |
| 1920 | Kritosaurus Lambe pp. 67-68 |
| 1920 | Kritosaurus Parks p. 9 |
| 1923 | Kritosaurus Nopcsa p. 105 |
| 1924 | Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 34 |
| 1930 | Kritosaurus Russell p. 142 |
| 1935 | Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 161 |
| 1935 | Kritosaurus Russell p. 117 |
| 1942 | Kritosaurus Lull and Wright p. 133 |
| 1954 | Kritosaurus Sternberg p. 383 |
| 1956 | Kritosaurus Romer p. 630 |
| 1958 | Kritosaurus Young p. 106 |
| 1960 | Kritosaurus Langston, Jr. p. 336 |
| 1964 | Kritosaurus Casamiquela |
| 1964 | Kritosaurus Kuhn p. 21 |
| 1964 | Kritosaurus Russell p. 7 |
| 1966 | Kritosaurus Romer p. 370 |
| 1968 | Kritosaurus Rozhdestvensky |
| 1969 | Kritosaurus Waldman |
| 1970 | Kritosaurus Swinton p. 221 |
| 1972 | Kritosaurus Brambilla p. 317 |
| 1974 | Kritosaurus Thulborn p. 173 |
| 1975 | Kritosaurus Hopson p. 25 fig. 3 |
| 1980 | Kritosaurus Molnar p. 138 |
| 1984 | Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 144 |
| 1984 | Kritosaurus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 131 |
| 1986 | Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 90 |
| 1987 | Kritosaurus Powell p. 149 |
| 1992 | Kritosaurus Horner p. 16 |
| 1994 | Kritosaurus Forster and Sereno p. 25A |
| 1996 | Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 111 |
| 2000 | Kritosaurus Williamson p. 198 |
| 2001 | Kritosaurus Eberth et al. p. 58 |
| 2001 | Kritosaurus Lehman |
| 2003 | Kritosaurus Hernandez et al. p. 61A |
| 2006 | Kritosaurus Kirkland et al. p. 311 fig. 13 |
| 2007 | Kritosaurus Gates et al. p. 928 fig. 11 |
| 2010 | Kritosaurus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20 |
| 2010 | Kritosaurus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2 |
| 2010 | Kritosaurus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3 |
| 2012 | Kritosaurus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380 |
| 2013 | Kritosaurus Prieto-Marquez |
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