Brachylophosaurini

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Brachylophosaurins
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,[1] 81–76.7 Ma
Possible Maastrichtian record
Brachylophosaurus specimen "Roberta"
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Family: Hadrosauridae
Clade: Euhadrosauria
Subfamily: Saurolophinae
Tribe: Brachylophosaurini
Gates et al., 2011
Type species
Brachylophosaurus canadensis
Genera
Synonyms
  • Maiasaurini Sereno, 2005

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]

The clade Brachylophosaurini was defined as "Hadrosaurine ornithopods more closely related to Brachylophosaurus, Maiasaura, or Acristavus than to Gryposaurus or Saurolophus".[1] In 2021, Madzia et al. registered Brachylophosaurini in the PhyloCode and formally defined it as "The largest clade containing Brachylophosaurus canadensis but not Edmontosaurus regalis, Hadrosaurus foulkii, Kritosaurus navajovius and Saurolophus osborni".[3]

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  1. ^ a b c 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. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31..798G. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.577854. S2CID 8878474.
  2. ^ Xing, Hai; Prieto-Márquez; Gu, Wei; Yu, Ting-Xiang (2012). "Re-evaluation and phylogenetic analysis of Wulagasaurus dongi, a hadasaurine dinosaur from the Maastrichtian of northeast China" (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica.
  3. ^ Madzia, Daniel; Arbour, Victoria M.; Boyd, Clint A.; Farke, Andrew A.; Cruzado-Caballero, Penélope; Evans, David C. (2021-12-09). "The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs". PeerJ. 9: e12362. doi:10.7717/peerj.12362. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8667728. PMID 34966571.