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Kritosaurus

Description
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)53195https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=53195
Rankgenus (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Hadrosauridae : Kritosaurus
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-ReptiliomorphaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-AnthracosauriaSäve-Söderbergh 1934
-Batrachosauria
-Cotylosauria
-AmniotaHaeckel 1866
-SauropsidaHuxley 1864
classReptiliaLaurenti 1768
subclassEureptilia
-RomeriidaGauthier et al. 1988
-Diapsida
-Eosuchia
-NeodiapsidaBenton 1985
-SauriaGauthier 1984
-Archosauromorpha
-CrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
-EucrocopodaEzcurra 2016
-Archosauria
informalAvemetatarsaliaBenton 1999
-OrnithodiraGauthier 1986
-DinosauromorphaBenton 1985
-DinosauriformesNovas 1992
-Dinosauria
-Ornithischia
-Neornithischia
-Ornithopoda
-Iguanodontia
-DryomorphaSereno 1986
-AnkylopollexiaSereno 1986
-StyracosternaSereno 1986
-HadrosauriformesSereno 1997
-Hadrosauroidea
familyHadrosauridaeCope 1869
subfamilyHadrosaurinaeLambe 1918
tribeKritosauriniLapparent and Lavocat 1955
genusKritosaurusBrown 1910
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontidaestated without evidenceBrown, 1910
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontinaestated without evidenceBrown, 1914
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontidaestated without evidenceGilmore, 1916
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceLambe, 1918
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontinaestated without evidenceParks, 1920
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Protrachodontidaestated without evidenceNopcsa, 1923
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceGilmore, 1924
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontidaestated with evidenceLull, 1924
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontidaestated without evidenceHuene, 1927
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontinaestated with evidenceNopcsa, 1928
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceRussell, 1930
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceGilmore, 1933
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceRussell, 1935
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceGilmore, 1935
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Trachodontidaestated without evidenceParks, 1935
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceNagao, 1936
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated with evidenceSternberg, 1953
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceSternberg, 1954
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to HadrosauridaeimpliedRomer, 1956
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Saurolophinaestated without evidenceYoung, 1958
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceLangston, 1960
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceParsch, 1963
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated with evidenceTatarinov, 1964
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Saurolophinaestated without evidenceCasamiquela, 1964
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to HadrosauridaeimpliedRomer, 1966
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated with evidenceKuhn, 1966
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceRozhdestvensky, 1968
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceWaldman, 1969
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceBrambilla, 1972
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidencePowell, 1973
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceHopson, 1975
Kritosaurusgenussubjective synonym of Hadrosaurusstated without evidenceBaird and Horner, 1977
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceMolnar, 1980
Kritosaurusgenussubjective synonym of Hadrosaurusstated without evidenceLehman, 1981
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceBonaparte, 1984
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceBonaparte, 1986
Kritosaurusgenussubjective synonym of Hadrosaurusstated without evidenceClemens, 1986
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidencePowell, 1987
Kritosaurusgenussubjective synonym of Hadrosaurusstated without evidenceChapman and Brett-Surman, 1990
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceHunt and Lucas, 1992
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Saurolophinaestated without evidenceHorner, 1992
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceForster and Sereno, 1994
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated with evidenceBonaparte, 1996
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceDodson, 1997
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceLehman, 2001
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceEberth et al., 2001
Kritosaurusgenusnomen dubium Hadrosauridaestated without evidenceHorner et al., 2004
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceKirkland et al., 2006
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated with evidenceCruzado-Caballero et al., 2010
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Saurolophinaestated with evidencePrieto-Márquez, 2010
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Kritosaurinistated with evidencePrieto-Marquez, 2013
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Hadrosaurinaestated without evidenceSullivan and Lucas, 2014
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Kritosaurinistated with evidenceLehman et al., 2016
Kritosaurusgenusbelongs to Kritosaurinistated without evidenceBertozzo et al., 2017
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)3
First Recorded Appearance85.8 - 83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance72.1 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentterrestrial (based on Ornithischia)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Dietherbivore (based on Ornithopoda)
Reproductionoviparous, dispersal=direct/internal,mobile (based on Ornithischia)
Ontogenyaccretion,modification of parts (based on Ornithischia)
Taphonomyhydroxylapatite,compact or dense (based on Ornithischia)
Primary Reference (PBDB)B. Brown. 1910. The Cretaceous Ojo Alamo beds of New Mexico with description of the new dinosaur genus Kritosaurus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28(24):267-274
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kritosaurus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Kritosaurus horneri
species
listed (PBDB)Anasazi Lizard
Kritosaurus navajovius
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
883.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
83.5 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1910Kritosaurus Brown
1914Kritosaurus Brown p. 377
1916Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 281
1918Kritosaurus Lambe p. 138
1920Kritosaurus Lambe pp. 67-68
1920Kritosaurus Parks p. 9
1923Kritosaurus Nopcsa p. 105
1924Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 34
1924Kritosaurus Lull p. 241
1927Kritosaurus Huene p. 259
1928Kritosaurus Nopcsa p. 184
1930Kritosaurus Russell p. 142
1933Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 62
1935Kritosaurus Gilmore p. 161
1935Kritosaurus Parks p. 193
1935Kritosaurus Russell p. 117
1936Kritosaurus Nagao p. 213
1939Kritosaurus Nagao p. 144
1940Kritosaurus Wilfarth p. 11
1942Kritosaurus Lull and Wright p. 133
1953Kritosaurus Sternberg p. 11
1954Kritosaurus Sternberg p. 383
1956Kritosaurus Romer p. 630
1958Kritosaurus Young p. 106
1960Kritosaurus Langston p. 336
1960Kritosaurus Vialli p. 174
1963Kritosaurus Parsch p. 8
1964Kritosaurus Casamiquela
1964Kritosaurus Kuhn p. 21
1964Kritosaurus Russell p. 7
1964Kritosaurus Tatarinov p. 564
1966Kritosaurus Kuhn p. 103
1966Kritosaurus Romer p. 370
1968Kritosaurus Rozhdestvensky
YearName and Author
1969Kritosaurus Waldman
1970Kritosaurus Swinton p. 221
1972Kritosaurus Brambilla p. 317
1973Kritosaurus Powell p. 118
1974Kritosaurus Thulborn p. 173
1975Kritosaurus Hopson p. 25 fig. 3
1980Kritosaurus Molnar p. 138
1980Kritosaurus Wolberg p. 42
1984Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 144
1984Kritosaurus Maryanska and Osmólska p. 131
1986Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 90
1987Kritosaurus Powell p. 149
1992Kritosaurus Horner p. 16
1992Kritosaurus Hunt and Lucas p. 228
1994Kritosaurus Forster and Sereno p. 25A
1996Kritosaurus Bonaparte p. 111
1997Kritosaurus Dodson p. 12
2000Kritosaurus Williamson p. 198
2001Kritosaurus Eberth et al. p. 58
2001Kritosaurus Lehman
2003Kritosaurus Hernandez et al. p. 61A
2006Kritosaurus Kirkland et al. p. 311 fig. 13
2007Kritosaurus Gates et al. p. 928 fig. 11
2010Kritosaurus Cruzado-Caballero et al. p. 1510 fig. 4
2010Kritosaurus Prieto-Marquez and Salinas p. 835 fig. 20
2010Kritosaurus Prieto-Márquez p. 5 fig. 2
2010Kritosaurus Prieto-Márquez and Wagner p. 1243 fig. 3
2012Kritosaurus Ramírez-Velasco et al. p. 380
2013Kritosaurus Prieto-Marquez
2014Kritosaurus Sullivan and Lucas p. 370
2016Kritosaurus Lehman et al. p. 346
2017Kritosaurus Bertozzo et al. p. 13
2017Kritosaurus Cruzado-Caballero and Powell p. 12 fig. 13

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