Dinosauria › Reptilia › Galliformes › Theropoda › Phasianidae
Tetrao
Tetrao macropus Jánossy 1967
Late Cretaceous (Gelasian) · 5.1–1.8 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Tetrao macropus is a theropod dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 5.1–1.8 million years ago. It was a granivore. It was named by Jánossy 1967. 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 Tetrao sits in deep time
Tetrao
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Tetrao's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.