Hadrosaurus (Grec : ἁδρός, hadros + σαυρος, sauros = lézard robuste) est un genredouteux de la famille des hadrosauridés, ou « dinosaures à bec de canard ». En 1858, un squelette d'un spécimen du genre est découvert en Amérique du Nord et devient le premier squelette de dinosaure jamais reconstitué.
« Hadrosaurus breviceps was named by Marsh (1889). Its type specimen is YPM 1779 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Bearpaw Mountains (PROXY), which is in a Campanian/Campanian terrestrial horizon in the Judith River Formation of Montana.
It was recombined as Trachodon breviceps by Marsh (1896), Hay (1902), von Zittel (1911), Huene (1927) and Hay (1930); it was recombined as Kritosaurus breviceps by Lull and Wright (1942), Vialli (1960), Kuhn (1964) and Wolberg (1980); it was considered a nomen dubium by Weishampel and Horner (1990), Hunt and Lucas (1992), Horner et al. (2004), Lund and Gates (2006) and Prieto-Márquez et al. (2006) »