Nqwebasaurus

Field photograph to come

DV-0468Kirkwood Fm., South Africa

Nqwebasaurus

DV-0468

Lived
143 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet
Omnivore
Length
about 1 m (3 ft)
Group
Theropods
Found in
South Africa
Named by
de Klerk et al. 2000

Field notes

About Nqwebasaurus

Nqwebasaurus was an omnivorous theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 143 to 133 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Nqwebasaurus, from South Africa. Its fossils come from the Kirkwood Formation. It was named by de Klerk et al. in 2000.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

140 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

To scale

How big was Nqwebasaurus?

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Nqwebasaurus: about 1 m (3 ft) · Person: 1.8 m (6 ft)Silhouette: typical theropod shape

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ornithomimosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: W. J. de Klerk, C. A. Forster, and S. D. Sampson, A. Chinsamy, C. F. Ross. 2000. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):324-332