Centrocercus Centrocercus urophasianus (Bonaparte 1827)
/sˈɛntɹoʊsɚkəs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~1.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Regions
Colorado · Wyoming · Utah · Oregon
Dig sites
4
distinct collections
Overview
Centrocercus urophasianus is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from Colorado, United States. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
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. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.