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Silhouette of Callipepla

Callipepla

Callipepla californica (Shaw 1798)

Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~0.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Callipepla californica is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Shaw 1798). The species is represented by 19 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~53%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 19 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Callipepla sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Callipepla
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

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

same–clade
Scleroptila
Scleroptila shelleyi
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same–clade
Alectoris
Alectoris rufa
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same–clade
Coturnix
Coturnix pectoralis
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same–clade
Coturnix
Coturnix alabrevis
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