Nedcolbertia

DV-0420

Lived: 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Carnivore
Group: Theropods
Found in: United States
Named by: Kirkland et al. 1998

Field notes

About Nedcolbertia

Nedcolbertia was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 137 to 133 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 2 finds of Nedcolbertia, from Utah. Its fossils come from the Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named by Kirkland et al. in 1998.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

2 finds

135 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Coelurosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland, B. B. Britt, and C. H. Whittle, S. K. Madsen, D. L. Burge. 1998. A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of eastern Utah. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:239-248