Hadrosaurids (,
hadrós, "stout, thick"), or
duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the
ornithischian family
Hadrosauridae. The family, which includes
ornithopods such as
Edmontosaurus and
Parasaurolophus, was a common
herbivore in the Upper
Cretaceous Period of what is now
Asia,
Europe and
North America. Hadrosaurids are descendants of the Upper
Jurassic/Lower Cretaceous
iguanodontian dinosaurs and had a similar body layout. Hadrosaurids are divided into two principal subfamilies: the lambeosaurines (
Lambeosaurinae), which had hollow cranial crests or tubes, and the saurolophines, identified as hadrosaurines in most pre-2010 works (
Saurolophinae or
Hadrosaurinae), which lacked hollow cranial crests (solid crests were present in some forms). Saurolophines tended to be bulkier than lambeosaurines. Lambeosaurines are divided into Aralosaurines, Lambeosaurines, Parasaurolophines and Tsintaosaurines, while Saurolophines include Saurolophus, Brachylophosaurines and Kritosaurines.