Centrocercus Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte 1827)
/sˈɛntɹoʊsɚkəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~1.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Centrocercus urophasianus is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Bonaparte 1827). The species is represented by 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~15%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Centrocercus urophasianus sits in deep time
Centrocercus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Centrocercus urophasianus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.