Pronunciation: CHING-DOW-suh-REE-nee
Author: Prieto-Márquez, et al.
Year: 2013
Meaning: Tsingtao lizards (see etymology)
Locomotion: Bipedal (two legs)
Synonyms: None known
[Prieto-Márquez et al., 2013]Definition
The most exclusive clade of lambeosaurine hadrosaurids containing Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus and Pararhabdodon isonensis.
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About
Together with the early-diverging Aralosaurini, the helmet-crested Lambeosaurini, the tube-crested Parasaurolophini, as well as the more recently named Arenysaurini, the tsintaosaurins make up Lambeosaurinae.
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Etymology
Tsintaosaurini is derived from "Tsingtao" (the old transliteration of "Qingdao"—from the Chinese qing "green" and dao "island"), the Greek "sauros" (lizard) and the Latin suffix "ini" (tribe), named for the group co-anchor Tsintaosaurus, the first named member of the tribe.
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References
• Parks WA (1922) "Parasaurolophus walkeri, a new genus and species of crested trachodont dinosaur". University of Toronto Studies. Geological Series no. 13: 5-32. [Parasaurolophus.]
• Parks WA (1923) "Corythosaurus intermedius, a new species of trachodont dinosaur". University of Toronto Studies, Geology Series, 15:1-57. [Lambeosaurus.]
• Young C-C (1958) "The dinosaurian remains of Laiyang, Shantung". Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C, 42(16): 1-138. [Tsintaosaurus.]
• Rozhdestvenskiy AK (1968) "The Hadrosaurs of Kazakhstan". Page 97-141 in Tatarinov et al. (eds.) "Upper
Paleozoic and Mesozoic Amphibians and Reptiles". Akademia Nauk S.S.S.R., Moscow. [Aralosaurus.]
• Godefroit P, Alifanov V and Bolotsky Y (2004) "A re-appraisal of Aralosaurus tuberiferus (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Kazakhstan". Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre, 74: 139-154.
• Prieto-Márquez A, Dalla Vecchia FM, Gaete R and Galobart À (2013) "Diversity, Relationships, and Biogeography of the Lambeosaurine Dinosaurs from the European Archipelago, with Description of the New Aralosaurin Canardia garonnensis". PLoS ONE, 8(7): e69835. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069835.
• Longrich NR, Suberbiola XP, Pyron RA and Jalil N-E (2021) "The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography". Cretaceous Research, 120: 104678. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104678. [Arenysaurini.]
