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Lambeosaurini

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Clade
  
Dinosauria

Suborder
  
†Ornithopoda

Higher classification
  
Hadrosaurid

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
†Ornithischia

Family
  
†Hadrosauridae

Rank
  
Tribe

Lambeosaurini

Similar
  
Dinosaur, Hadrosaurid, Corythosaurus, Ornithopod, Ornithischia

Lambeosaurini is one of the four lambeosaurine tribes, previously known as Corythosaurini, is a group of hadrosaurid ornithopods known from N. America and Asia. It is defined as all lambeosaurines closer to Lambeosaurus lambei than to Parasaurolophus walkeri (Lambeosaurus lambei>Parasaurolophus walkeri).

It currently contains the following genera; Corythosaurus (from the Red Deer River, Canada), Hypacrosaurus (from Alberta, Canada, and Montana, U.S.), Lambeosaurus (also from Canada), Magnapaulia (from Baja California, Mexico), Nipponosaurus (from Sakhalin, Russia), Olorotitan (from the Amur River, Russia), Sahaliyania (also from the Amur river, however in China), and Velafrons (from Coahuila, Mexico). It also may include Angulomastacator (from Rio Grande, Texas), and Amurosaurus (also from the Amur river, again on the Russian side).

References

Lambeosaurini Wikipedia