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Silhouette of Coturnix

Coturnix

Coturnix novaezelandiae Quoy and Gaimard 1830

Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~0.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Coturnix novaezelandiae is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by Quoy and Gaimard 1830. The species is represented by 26 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~65%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 26 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Coturnix sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Coturnix
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

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

same–clade
Penelope
Penelope purpurascens
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same–clade
Numida
Numida meleagris
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same–clade
Aepypodius
Aepypodius arfakianus
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same–clade
Megapodius
Megapodius alimentum
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