Nqwebasaurus

Nqwebasaurus
Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: Theropoda
Clade: †Ornithomimosauria
Genus: †Nqwebasaurus
de Klerk et al., 2000
Species:
†N. thwazi
Binomial name
†Nqwebasaurus thwazi
de Klerk et al., 2000

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.

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