Nqwebasaurus
Field photograph to come
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
140 million years ago
To scale
How big was Nqwebasaurus?
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