Nqwebasaurus Nqwebasaurus
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nqwebasaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
2 people holding hands
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (140 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Gondwana · South Africa
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Nqwebasaurus is a probable ornithomimosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. The genus contains a single species, Nqwebasaurus thwazi, representing the oldest known coelurosaur in Africa and the evidence for basal coelurosaurian dinosaurs inhabiting Gondwana since the earliest Cretaceous period.
What we know
- Named by de Klerk et al., 2000.
- Body length estimated at about 1 m.
- Fossils found in Africa and Gondwana.