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ArticleBiology2026

First Report of a Hollow Cranial Crest in an Early-Diverging Duck-Billed Dinosaur, with Implications for Convergent Evolution of Acoustic Signaling.

Qingyu Ma, Yubo Ma, Chao Tan, Jian Chen, Yu Lin, Ming Xiao, Hui Dai, Guangbiao Wei, Jordan C Mallon, Jun Wang and 3 more

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Article in Biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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13 authors.

Qingyu MaChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Yubo MaChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Chao TanChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Jian ChenChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Yu LinChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Ming XiaoChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Hui DaiChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Guangbiao WeiChongqing Institute of Paleontology, Chongqing 401122, China.
Jordan C MallonBeaty Centre for Species Discovery and Palaeobiology Section, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, ON K1P 6P4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8209-8827
Jun WangSchool of Earth Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming 650500, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4383-3956
Han YaoSchool of Earth and Planetary Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China.ORCID 0009-0008-3829-6704
Zhengting ZouState Key Laboratory of Animal Biodiversity Conservation and Integrated Pest Management, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1716-5090
Hai XingDepartment of Geosciences, National Natural History Museum of China, Beijing 100050, China.ORCID 0000-0003-1198-4108

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China No. 42377447; No. 42372036; No. 42562004the BJAST Young Scholar Program No. 24CE-YS-01the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Planning and Natural Resources No. KG2023Z020504Gthe Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing No. CSTB2023NSCQ-MSX1076the special financial support of the Beijing Government and the Canadian Museum of Nature No grant numberthe Special Key Project of Technology Innovation and Application Development of Chongqing No. CSTB2023TIAD-KPX0099the Support Program of Overseas Returnees Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Chongqing No. CX2024041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cranial crests have evolved multiple times in the evolutionary history of vertebrates, serving primarily for visual display. In duck-billed lambeosaurines, one of the most successful dinosaur clades of the Late Cretaceous, the cranial crest became hollow along the paired premaxillae and nasals, and was secondarily selected as a resonating structure atop the skull roof, facilitating acoustic signaling. Here we report the first instance of a hollow supracranial crest in a non-lambeosaurine ornithopod dinosaur, the early-branching hadrosauroid

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accessory endonasal cavitiesconvergent evolutionhollow supracranial crestlow-frequency vocalizationsQianjiangsaurus changshengi

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