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Scleroptila

Scleroptila shelleyi (Ogilvie-Grant 1890)

Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~0.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Scleroptila shelleyi is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Ogilvie-Grant 1890). 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 Scleroptila sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Scleroptila
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

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

same–clade
Alectoris
Alectoris rufa
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same–clade
Coturnix
Coturnix pectoralis
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same–clade
Coturnix
Coturnix alabrevis
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same–clade
Tetrastes
Tetrastes bonasia
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