Dinosauria › Reptilia › Galliformes › Theropoda › Phasianidae
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
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.