Timeline of hadrosaur research

Skeletal mounts of Shantungosaurus giganteus

This timeline of hadrosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the hadrosauroids, a group of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaurs popularly known as the duck-billed dinosaurs. Scientific research on hadrosaurs began in the 1850s,[1] when Joseph Leidy described the genera Thespesius and Trachodon based on scrappy fossils discovered in the western United States. Just two years later he published a description of the much better-preserved remains of an animal from New Jersey that he named Hadrosaurus.[2]

The early 20th century saw such a boom in hadrosaur discoveries Anderson research that paleontologists' knowledge of these dinosaurs "increased by virtually an order of magnitude" according to a 2004 review by Horner, Weishampel, and Forster. This period is known as the great North American Dinosaur rush because of the research and excavation efforts of paleontologists like Brown, Gilmore, Lambe, Parks, and the Sternbergs. Major discoveries included the variety of cranial ornamentation among hadrosaurs as scientist came to characterize uncrested, solid crested, and hollow crested species.[2] Notable new taxa included Saurolophus, Corythosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Lambeosaurus.[3] In 1942 Richard Swann Lull and Wright published what Horner, Weishampel, and Forster characterized as the "first important synthesis of hadrosaurid anatomy and phylogeny".[2]

More recent discoveries include gigantic hadrosaurs like Shantungosaurus giganteus from China.[4] At 15 meters in length and nearly 16 metric tons in weight it is the largest known hadrosaur and is known from a nearly complete skeleton.[5]

Hadrosaur research has continued to remain active even into the new millennium. In 2000, Horner and others found that hatchling Maiasaura grew to adult body sizes at a rate more like a mammal's than a reptile. That same year, Case and others reported the discovery of hadrosaur bones in Vega Island, Antarctica. After decades of such dedicated research, hadrosaurs have become one of the best understood group of dinosaurs.[2]

19th century

1850s

Illustration of the Thespesius syntype
Illustration of Trachodon teeth
The first mounted dinosaur skeleton, that of Hadrosaurus

1856

1858

1860s

1868

1869

1870s

1870

1871

1872

1874

1875

1876

1880s

Type specimen of Claosaurus

1883

1888

1889

1890s

1890

1892

20th century

1900s

1900

1902

1903

1910

Artist's restoration of Edmontosaurus regalis

1910

1912

1913

1914

1915

Prosaurolophus maximus specimen collected 1921, Royal Ontario Museum

1916

1917

1918

1920s

Artist's restoration of Parasaurolophus

1920

1922

1923

1924

Artist's restoration of Tanius

1925

1926

1929

1930s

Skeletal mount of Bactrosaurus

1930

1931

1933

Skeletal mount of Nipponosaurus

1935

1936

1939

1940s

Skeletal mount of Orthomerus

1942

1943

1945

1946

1950s

Illustration of the skull of Tsintaosaurus

1952

1953

1958

1960s

Skeletal reconstruction of Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus

1960

1961

1964

1967

1968

1970s

Shantungosaurus (blue) compared with other giant ornithopods

1970

1971

1973

1975

Skeletal mount of Maiasaura and hatchlings

1976

1979

1980s

Hotton argued that some hadrosaurs may have migrated

1980

Artist's restoration of Barsboldia
Skeletal reconstruction and size comparison Lambeosaurus (now Magnapaulia) laticaudus

1981

1982

1983

Illustration of a Jaxartosaurus skull

1984

1985

1987

1988

1990s

Artist's restoration of Amurosaurus

1990

1991

1992

Scientists began reconstructing the hadrosaur family tree in the 1990s.

They also found cladistic support for the traditional division of Hadrosauridae into the subfamilies Hadrosaurinae and Lambeosaurinae.[10]

1993

1994

1996

1997

1999

21st century

Artist's restoration of Charonosaurus jiayinensis

2000s

2000

Artist's restoration of Olorotitan arharensis

2001

2003

Left ilium of Cedrorestes

2004

2005

2006

2007

Artist's reconstruction of an Angulomastacator skull

2008

2009

2010s

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

See also

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", page 443.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Introduction", page 438.
  3. Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", pages 439–442.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", page 441.
  5. Lucas (2001); "Nemegtian Vertebrates", page 181.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", page 440.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Paleoecology, Biogeography, and Paleobiology", page 462.
  8. Weishampel and Young (1996); "Haddonfield Hadrosaurus", page 71.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", page 442.
  10. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Systematics and Evolution", page 457.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Table 20.1: Hadrosauridae", page 439.
  12. 1 2 Tanke (2010); "Note 4," page 544.
  13. Tanke (2010); "Note 9," page 546.
  14. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Paleoecology, Biogeography, and Paleobiology", page 461.
  15. 1 2 Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Paleoecology, Biogeography, and Paleobiology", page 463.
  16. Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Systematics and Evolution", pages 457–458.
  17. Horner, Weishampel, and Forster (2004); "Systematics and Evolution", page 458.
  18. You et al. (2003); "Abstract", page 347.
  19. Kobayashi and Azuma (2003); "Abstract", page 166.
  20. Bolotsky and Godefroit (2004); "Abstract", page 351.
  21. Godefroit, Li, and Shang (2005); "Abstract", page 697.
  22. Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006); "Abstract", page 929.
  23. Gilpin et al. (2007); "Abstract", page 79.
  24. Mo et al. (2007); "Abstract", page 550.
  25. Zhao et al. (2007); "Abstract", page 111.
  26. Godefroit et al. (2008); "Abstract", page 47.
  27. Wagner and Lehman (2009); "Abstract", page 605.
  28. Pereda-Suberbiola et al. (2009); "Abstract", page 559.
  29. Sues and Averianov (2009); "Abstract", page 2549.
  30. Dalla Vecchia (2009); "Abstract", page 1100.
  31. Cruzado-Caballero et al. (2010); "Abstract", page 1507.
  32. Prieto-Márquez (2010); "Abstract", page 1.
  33. Juárez Valieri et al. (2010); "Abstract", page 217.
  34. Gates et al. (2010); "Abstract", page 798.
  35. Godefroit et al. (2012); "Abstract", page 335.
  36. Ramírez-Velasco et al. (2012); "Abstract", page 379.
  37. Godefroit et al. (2012); "Abstract", page 438.
  38. Coria, Riga and Casadío (2012); "Abstract", page 552.
  39. Prieto-Márquez and Brañas (2012); "Abstract", page 607.
  40. Prieto-Márquez, Chiappe, and Joshi (2012); "Abstract", page 1.
  41. Prieto-Márquez et al. (2013); "Canardia gen. nov", page 5.
  42. Bell and Brink (2013); "Abstract", page 265.
  43. Prieto-Márquez and Wagner (2013); "Abstract", page 255.
  44. Wang et al. (2012); "Abstract", page 1.
  45. Prieto-Márquez et al. (2014); "Abstract", page 1.
  46. Gates and Scheetz (2014); "Abstract", page 798.
  47. Xing et al. (2014); "Abstract", page 1.
  48. Gates et al. (2014); "Abstract", page 156.
  49. You, Li, and Dodson (2014); "Abstract", page 73.
  50. Shibata and Azuma (2015); "Abstract", page 421.
  51. Mori, Druckenmiller and Erickson (2015); "Abstract".
  52. Freedman Fowler and Horner (2015); in passim.
  53. Shibata et al. (2015); in passim.
  54. Xu et al. (2016); in passim.
  55. Wang et al. (2016); in passim.

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