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Meleagris
Meleagris tridens Wetmore 1931
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~0.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Meleagris tridens is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by Wetmore 1931. 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%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 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.