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

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LambeosaurinaePBDB
- 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 most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Lambeosaurini 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Lambeosaurini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lambeosaurini and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Lambeosaurini and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Magnapaulia laticaudus4 sites
- Alamosaurus sanjuanensis1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Glyptodontopelta mimus1 site
- Lepisosteus1 site
- Ojoceratops fowleri1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Tyrannosauridae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Lambeosaurini, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- The hadrosaurian record from Mexico3
- The first lambeosaurin (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae, Lambeosaurinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Ojo Alamo Formation (Naashoibito Member), San Juan Basin, New Mexico2
- A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Baja California—?Lambeosaurus laticaudus1
Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Lambeosaurini
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Zissoudisctrucker
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Lambeosaurini was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
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.
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What may have been alongside itLambeosaurinae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sullivan et al. 2011