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What is Hadrosauroidea?

Pronunciation: had-row-suh-ROY-dee-uh
Author: Cope
Year: 1869
Meaning: Heavy lizards (super family)
Locomotion: Primarily bipedal (2 legs)
Synonyms: Trachodontoidea (Lydekker, 1888),
Hadrosauria (Huene, 1956)
[Sereno, 2005]Definition
The most inclusive taxon containing Parasaurolophus walkeri but not Iguanodon bernissartensis.
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Etymology
Hadrosauroidea is derived from "Hadrosaurus" (anchor-saur of the group) and the Latin "-oidea" (of a type indicated by the stem or prefix). Hadrosaurus is derived from the Greek "hadros" (heavy, bulky, sturdy, powerful) and "sauros" (lizard) because of its size and build, ergo Hadrosauroidea literally means "heavy lizards". In the old Linnaean system of classification, "oides" is applied to groups that rank as "superfamilies".
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References
• Prieto-Marquez A (2008) "Phylogeny and historical biogeography of hadrosaurid dinosaurs". Florida State University. Theses and Dissertations.
• Prieto-Marquez A (2010) "Global historical biogeography of hadrosaurid dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 159(2): 503-525. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00642.x
• Prieto-Marquez A (2010) "Global phylogeny of Hadrosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) using parsimony and Bayesian methods". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 159(2): 435–502. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00617.x
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