Dinosauria›Reptilia›Galliformes›Theropoda›Phasianidae
Silhouette of Tetrao urogalloides

Tetrao Tetrao urogalloides Middendorff 1853

/kʰæpəʳˈkʰɛɪli/
Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · —

Key Statistics

Diet
granivore
Locomotion
flight
Habitat
flying

Overview

Tetrao urogalloides is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It is recorded as flying. It was named by Middendorff 1853. 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 Tetrao urogalloides sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
Tetrao
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya

Relationships

Part of a wider fossil web

These species share Tetrao urogalloides'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
Ortalis
Ortalis vetula
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same–clade
Ortalis
Ortalis leucogastra
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same–clade
Crax
Crax alberti
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same–clade
Mwalau
Mwalau walterlinii
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