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Tetrao

Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus 1758

Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~2.6 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview

Tetrao urogallus is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by Linnaeus 1758. The species is represented by 20 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.

Fossil Record Completeness

How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record

~55%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 20 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time

Where Tetrao sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
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.

same–clade
Progura
Progura campestris
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same–clade
Garrdimalga
Garrdimalga mcnamarai
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same–clade
Leipoa
Leipoa ocellata
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same–clade
Latagallina
Latagallina olsoni
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