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Their name means bird foot. These plant-eaters of the Jurassic and the Cretaceous thrived on every continent. The duck-billed hadrosaurs are the best-known branch. Their jaws held hundreds of teeth packed into a grinding surface for plants.

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Terry A. Gates Acristavus

Acristavus

Terry A. Gates

Nearly all hadrosaurids wore some ornament on the skull. This one wore none.

Photo: ケラトプスユウタ (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Gates et al. Adelolophus

Adelolophus

Gates et al.

All that is known of it is a broken maxilla. It is enough to set it apart, thanks to a unique thickened ridge between the jugal articulation and the palatine process.

Photo: Levi B. Martinez-Reza (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Prieto-Márquez et al. Adynomosaurus

Adynomosaurus

Prieto-Márquez et al.

Part of its name comes from the Greek word for "weak". The reason is a feeble shoulder blade that must have carried puny muscles. Its bones turned up in 2012 by a wheat field in Catalonia. Two left shinbones show that at least two animals lay there.

Photo: Connor Ashbridge (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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