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Silhouette of Centrocercus

Centrocercus

Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte 1827)

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 sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Centrocercus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

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

same–clade
Bonasa
Bonasa umbellus
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same–clade
Dendragapus
Dendragapus obscurus
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same–clade
Falcipennis
Falcipennis canadensis
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same–clade
Lagopus
Lagopus leucura
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