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Kol Kol ghuva Turner et al. 2009

/kˈɑːl/ estimated
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · 83.6–72.2 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
carnivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
solitary

Where It Was Found

Country
Mongolia
Region
Omnogov
Formation
Djadokhta
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Mongolia. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Kol ghuva is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 83.6–72.2 million years ago. It was a carnivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and solitary. Fossils have been recovered from Omnogov, Mongolia. It was named by Turner et al. 2009. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~5%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Kol ghuva sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Kol
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Kol ghuva'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.

predator–prey
Protoceratops
Protoceratops andrewsi
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predator–prey
Pinacosaurus
Pinacosaurus grangeri
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predator–prey
Bagaceratops
Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
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coexisted–with
Centrosaurus
Centrosaurus apertus
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coexisted–with
Stegoceras
Stegoceras validum
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coexisted–with
Hypacrosaurus
Hypacrosaurus stebingeri
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coexisted–with
Corythosaurus
Corythosaurus casuarius
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same–clade
Ornithoides
Ornithoides oshiensis
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