Darla K. Zelenitsky, Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Qi Zhao, Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PO Box 643, Beijing 100044, China
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Reviewers
Paul M. Barrett, Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, U.K. SW7 5BD
Kirstin S. Brink, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road N., Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Brooks B. Britt, Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, S-387 ESC, PO Box 24606, Provo, Utah 84602
Caleb M. Brown, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
Nicolás E. Campione, Departments of Earth Sciences and Organismal Biology, Uppsala University, Box 256, 751 05 Uppsala, Sweden
Katherine Clayton, Paleontology Collections, Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108
Penelope Cruzado-Caballero, Universidad de Zaragoza, Departamento de Ciencias de la Tierra, c/ Pedro Cerbuna, 12 c.p. 50009 Zargoza, Spain
David Dilkes, Department of Biology and Microbiology, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algona Boulevard, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54901
Peter Dodson, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 3800 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6045
David A. Eberth, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
David C. Evans, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
Andrew A. Farke, Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology, 1175 West Baseline Road, Claremont, California 91711
Denver Fowler, Museum of the Rockies, Paleontology Department, 600 West Kagy Boulevard, Bozeman, Montana 59717
Roland Gangloff, University of California Museum of Paleontology, 1101 Valley Life Sciences Building, Berkeley, California 94720-4780
James Gardner, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
Terry A. Gates, Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695; North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC 27601
Pascal Godefroit, Department of Palaeontology, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, rue Vautier 29, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Merrilee F. Guenther, Department of Biology, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois 60126
Jason J. Head, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 228 Bessey Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588
Donald M. Henderson, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
Casey Holliday, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri, M318 Medical Sciences Building, Columbia, Missouri 65212
James Kirkland, Utah Geological Survey, PO Box 146100, Salt Lake City, Utah 84114
Derek W. Larson, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6
Jordan Mallon, Canadian Museum of Nature, Palaeobiology Department, PO Box 3443 Stn. “D,” Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4
Richard McCrea, Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre, 255 Murray Drive, Box 1540, Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia V0C 2W0
Andrew T. McDonald, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pennsylvania, 254-b Hayden Hall, 240 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
David B. Norman, Sedgwick Museum and Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, U.K. CB2 3EQ
Albert Prieto-Márquez, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Wills Memorial Building, Queens Road, Bristol, U.K. BS8 1RJ
Patricia E. Ralrick, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta, T0J 0Y0
Raymond R. Rogers, Geology Department, Macalester College, 1600 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105
Eric Snively, Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1725 State Street, La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601
David Spalding, 1105 Ogden Road, Pender Island, British Columbia V0N 2M1
Daisuke Suzuki, Sapporo Medical University, South 1 West 17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8556 Japan
François Therrien, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Box 7500, Drumheller, Alberta T0J 0Y0
Khishigjav Tsogtbaatar, Mongolian Paleontological Center, Ulaanbaatar 210351, Mongolia
David B. Weishampel, Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287
Lawrence Witmer, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ohio University, Life Sciences Building, Room 123, Athens, Ohio 45701
Holly Woodward, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences, 1111 West 17th Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74107
Hai-lu You, Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing 100044, China
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Preface
HADROSAURS – ALSO KNOWN AS DUCK-BILLED DINOSAURS – are one of the best-known groups within Dinosauria due to their abundance in the fossil record, notable diversity, and near global distribution in the Late Cretaceous. Their success was likely driven by a combination of factors that included, most importantly, anatomically-unique and functionally-complex jaws and dentitions that processed plants more efficiently than those of any “reptile” before or since. Ultimately, the ubiquity of hadrosaurs in the Cretaceous fossil record has allowed us to learn more about dinosaurian paleobiology and paleoecology than we have from any other group.
In recent years, a number of dinosaur groups have been the subject of renewed scientific interest. In 2005, sauropod studies experienced a scientific renaissance with the benchmark publications The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology and Indiana University Press’s Thunder Lizards: The Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. In 2010, after a decade-long surge of interest in horned dinosaurs, that group received similar treatment in Indiana University Press’s New Perspectives on Horned Dinosaurs. During the last five years it has been the hadrosaurs’ time in the spotlight. Due to the rapidly growing fossil record as well as widespread international collaborations, researchers from around the world are now studying new specimens and taxa of hadrosaurs to clarify their origins, patterns of evolution, function, paleobiology, paleobiogeography, and preservation.
It was with this perspective that we (Davids 1 and 2) convened the International Hadrosaur Symposium (September 22–23, 2011).