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Silhouette of Phasianus

Phasianus

Phasianus mioceanus (Shufeldt 1915)

Late Cretaceous (Burdigalian) · 29.5–18.5 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Phasianus mioceanus is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 29.5–18.5 million years ago. It was a granivore. It was named by (Shufeldt 1915). 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 Phasianus sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Phasianus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

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

same–clade
Ngawupodius
Ngawupodius minya
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same–clade
Ortalis
Ortalis tantala
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same–clade
Palaealectoris
Palaealectoris incertus
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same–clade
Colymbus
Colymbus (Dytes) oligocaenus
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