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Meleagris
Meleagris crassipes Miller 1940
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~1.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Meleagris crassipes is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. 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%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Meleagris sits in deep time
Meleagris
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Meleagris's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.