Dinosauria › Reptilia › Galliformes › Theropoda › Phasianidae
Tympanuchus
Tympanuchus cupido (Linnaeus 1758)
Late Cretaceous (Holocene) · ~0.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
granivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Tympanuchus cupido is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by (Linnaeus 1758). The species is represented by 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~27%
confidence from occurrence count
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 8 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Tympanuchus sits in deep time
Tympanuchus
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Tympanuchus's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.