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Silhouette of Oreortyx

Oreortyx

Oreortyx pictus (Douglas 1829)

Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~0.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Oreortyx pictus is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a herbivore. It was named by (Douglas 1829). The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~11%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Oreortyx sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Oreortyx
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Oreortyx's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.

same–clade
Penelope
Penelope purpurascens
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same–clade
Numida
Numida meleagris
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same–clade
Aepypodius
Aepypodius arfakianus
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same–clade
Megapodius
Megapodius alimentum
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