Scleroptila Scleroptila shelleyi (Ogilvie-Grant 1890)
/sklˌɛɹəptˈɪlə/
estimated
Late Cretaceous (Late Pleistocene) · ~0.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying
Where It Was Found
Country
South Africa
Dig sites
1
distinct collections
Overview
Scleroptila shelleyi is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It is recorded as flying. Fossils have been recovered from South Africa. 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%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Scleroptila shelleyi sits in deep time
Scleroptila
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Scleroptila shelleyi'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.