Dinosauria›Reptilia›Galliformes›Theropoda›Megapodiidae
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Progura Progura campestris Shute et al. 2017

/pɹəɡjˈʊɹɹə/ estimated
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~2.6 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying

Where It Was Found

Country
Australia
Region
Western Australia
Dig sites
2
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Australia. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Progura campestris is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from Western Australia, Australia. It was named by Shute et al. 2017. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 2 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Progura campestris sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Progura
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Progura campestris'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.

same–clade
Garrdimalga
Garrdimalga mcnamarai
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same–clade
Leipoa
Leipoa ocellata
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same–clade
Latagallina
Latagallina olsoni
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same–clade
Tetrao
Tetrao urogallus
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