Dinosauria › Reptilia › Galliformes › Theropoda › Phasianidae
Lagopus
Lagopus leucura (Richardson 1831)
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~1.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Lagopus leucura is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Richardson 1831). The species is represented by 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~8%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Lagopus sits in deep time
Lagopus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Lagopus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.