lambeosaurineadj.n.
/ˌlambɪəˈsɔːrʌɪn/, /ˌlambɪəˈsɔːrɪn/, U.S. /ˌlæmbiəˈsɔrən/ Palaeontology.
A. adj.
Designating dinosaurs of the subfamily Lambeosaurinae, which comprises crested hadrosaurs such as Lambeosaurus; of, relating to, or characteristic of such dinosaurs.
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ornithoscelidan1875
theriodont1876
lambeosaurine1940
1940 L. S. Russell & R. W. Landes Geol. Southern Alberta Plains iii. 72 The material..includes skulls of a new Chasmosaurus, and of the true Monoclonius, a skeleton of a lambeosaurine hadrosaur.., and two undescribed fishes.
1964 Jrnl. Paleontol. 38 133/1 These two elements indicate a hadrosaur with lambeosaurine proportions rather than hadrosaurine or saurolophine.
2007 R. A. Coria & A. V. Cambiaso in Z. Gasparini et al. Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles vii. 182 Those features that indicate lambeosaurine affinities include the height of the caudal neural spines and the ventral keellike ridge of ventral sacrals.
B. n.
A lambeosaurine dinosaur. Cf. Lambeosaurus n.
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Compsognathus1869
ornithoscelidan1870
theriodont1876
proganosaur1900
lambeosaur1936
lambeosaurine1960
1960 Fieldiana: Geol. Mem. 3 341 In some lambeosaurines the bones comprising the hood apparently shifted ontogenetically, and the frontals sometimes have a gap between them anteriorly.
1990 R. E. Chapman & M. K. Brett-Surman in K. Carpenter & P. J. Currie Dinosaur Systematics (1992) xii. 170 A sample individual analysis..shows a comparison of a hadrosaurine (Anatotitan ) to a lambeosaurine (Corythosaurus casuarius).
2012 S. L. Brusatte Dinosaur Paleobiol. ii. 60/1 Wiman (1931) was one of the first to draw parallels between the tubular crests of some lambeosaurines and the shapes of various musical instruments.
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