Nqwebasaurus
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Nqwebasaurus 1 m (3.3 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 1 m (3.3 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (140 Mya)
- Place
- Africa · Gondwana · South Africa
- Food
- Carnivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Nqwebasaurus — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.