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Alectoris

Alectoris graeca (Meisner 1804)

Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~2.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Alectoris graeca is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Meisner 1804). The species is represented by 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~27%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Alectoris sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Alectoris
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Alectoris's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.

same–clade
Progura
Progura campestris
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same–clade
Garrdimalga
Garrdimalga mcnamarai
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same–clade
Leipoa
Leipoa ocellata
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same–clade
Latagallina
Latagallina olsoni
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