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Progura Progura gallinacea De Vis 1889

/pɹəɡjˈʊɹɹə/ estimated
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~5.3 Mya

Key Statistics

Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying

Where It Was Found

Country
Australia
Regions
Queensland · South Australia
Formation
Chinchilla Sand
Dig sites
4
distinct collections
Recorded finds in Australia. Present-day positions: the continents have moved since.

Overview

Progura gallinacea is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from Queensland, Australia. It was named by De Vis 1889. The species is represented by 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~15%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 4 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Geologic Time

Where Progura gallinacea sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Progura
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Progura gallinacea'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
Latagallina
Latagallina naracoortensis
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same–clade
Tetrao
Tetrao conjugens
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same–clade
Lyrurus
Lyrurus tetrix
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same–clade
Gallus
Gallus bravardi
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