Dinosauria › Reptilia › Theropoda › Gargantuaviidae
Gargantuavis
Gargantuavis philoinos Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · 83.6–66 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Gargantuavis philoinos is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–66.0 million years ago. It was a carnivore. It was named by Buffetaut and Le Loeuff 1998. 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 Gargantuavis sits in deep time
Gargantuavis
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Gargantuavis's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.