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sharp-clawed runner
Nqwebasaurus
Say it like this: “en-KWEB-ah-SAWR-us”
Nqwebasaurus thwazi
Nqwebasaurus ate plants and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in South Africa.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Berriasian · Valanginian) · roughly 143.1 to 132.6 million years ago
- Named in
- 2000 · de Klerk, W. J.; Forster, C. A.; Sampson, S. D.; Chinsamy, A.; Ross, C. F.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- 1 m · 3 ft
- Weight
- 1 kg · 2 lb
- Found in
- South Africa · Kirkwood
- Food and walking
- Herbivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Ornithomimosauria
The story in short
The genus Nqwebasaurus dates to 2000, the year W. J. de Klerk and colleagues described it.
It lived in the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian · Valanginian), roughly 143.1 to 132.6 million years ago. Finds come from South Africa, including the Kirkwood Formation. It was a herbivore and walked on two legs.
Published estimates put Nqwebasaurus at a length near 1 m and a body mass around 1 kg.
On the family tree it sits in Ornithomimosauria, among the theropod dinosaurs.