Meleagris Meleagris crassipes Miller 1940
/mˈɛliːɡɹˌɪs/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~1.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Regions
Arizona · New Mexico
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Overview
Meleagris crassipes is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from Arizona, United States. It was named by Miller 1940. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Meleagris crassipes sits in deep time
Meleagris
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Meleagris crassipes'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.