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Alectoris
Alectoris rufa (Linnaeus 1758)
Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~0.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Alectoris rufa is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Linnaeus 1758). The species is represented by 12 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~38%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 12 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Alectoris sits in deep time
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.