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Edmontosaurus

Edmontosaurus is bounded by Campione and Evans’s cranial growth and variation sample, which supports a reduced latest-Cretaceous North American species set; the morphometric result does not assign every hadrosaurid skull or define exact genus endpoints. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.

Represented range73–66 Ma
Content packagedinosauria
PBDBtxn:38761

Evidence boundary

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Claim ledger

morphology · medium

In Campione and Evans's skull sample, the long, low skulls historically assigned to Anatotitan copei fall within or close to Edmontosaurus annectens variation; the authors explain these proportions through size-related allometry and individual variation, with crushing potentially accentuating skull shape.

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taxonomy · medium

Edmontosaurus is bounded by Campione and Evans’s cranial growth and variation sample, which supports a reduced latest-Cretaceous North American species set; the morphometric result does not assign every hadrosaurid skull or define exact genus endpoints.

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fossil-range · medium

Edmontosaurus is displayed at 73–66 Ma only as the stratigraphic envelope of the sampled skulls, not an independently established global genus duration. The interval is a source-bounded sample window, not a global FAD, LAD, divergence date, continuous occupancy claim or direct-ancestor assertion.

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Known limits

References

  1. Cranial Growth and Variation in Edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): Implications for Latest Cretaceous Megaherbivore Diversity in North AmericaCampione, N.E.; Evans, D.C. · 2011 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0025186
  2. International Chronostratigraphic Chart v2026/06Cohen, K.M.; Harper, D.A.T.; Gibbard, P.L.; Car, N. · 2026 · DOI 10.18814/epiiugs/2025/025001
  3. Open Tree of Life web servicesOpenTreeOfLife Project
  4. The Paleobiology Database application programming interfacePeters, S.E.; McClennen, M. · 2016 · DOI 10.1017/pab.2015.39
  5. Denormalized occurrence and taxon tables of the Paleobiology DatabaseThe Paleobiology Database Community; Kocsis, Á.T. · 2026 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21620933
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