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Silhouette of Tympanuchus

Tympanuchus

Tympanuchus lulli Shufeldt 1915

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

Tympanuchus lulli is a theropod dinosaur known from Late Cretaceous. It was a granivore. It was named by Shufeldt 1915. 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 Tympanuchus sits in deep time

TRIASSIC
JURASSIC
CRETACEOUS
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.

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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