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Penelope Penelope purpurascens Wagler 1830
/pəˈnɛləpi/
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~0.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying
Where It Was Found
Country
Peru
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Penelope purpurascens is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from Peru. It was named by Wagler 1830. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Penelope purpurascens sits in deep time
Penelope
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Penelope purpurascens'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.