Currently it is the oldest coelurosaur in Africa and shows that basal coelurosaurian dinosaurs inhabited Gondwana 50 million years earlier than previously thought. The type specimen of Nqwebasaurus was discovered by William J. de Klerk who is …

Feb 16, 2023 · Nqwebasaurus was a small, bipedal dinosaur that lived during the Early Cretaceous period, approximately 125 million years ago. Its fossils were found in the Kirkwood Formation of South Africa, making it one of the few known African ornithopod dinosaurs.

Nqwebasaurus is known from a partial skeleton lacking the skull, so the shape of the head is based on similar dinosaurs. Explore Nqwebasaurus, a meat-eating theropod dinosaur in the Dino Directory.

Jan 14, 2013 · Discovered in the roughly 140 million year old Early Cretaceous rock of South Africa, the body of Nqwebasaurus consisted of a fragmentary skull, the shoulders and arms, complete lower legs, neck...

Jan 9, 2016 · Nqwebasaurus was a small theropod from probably the early Cretaceous of Southern Africa,‭ ‬but exactly what kind has been hard to establish.‭ ‬Current thinking is that Nqwebasaurus was actually a primitive ornithomimosaur,‭ ‬since specimens of Nqwebasaurus seem to show fewer teeth in the jaws than those of other theropods ...

Aug 1, 2012 · Nqwebasaurus is the first African ornithomimosaur and the first Gondwanan member of this group known from articulated skeletal material, supporting the hypothesis that coelurosaurian groups were...

Jun 27, 2000 · We report the well preserved skeleton of a small theropod dinosaur, Nqwebasaurus thwazi, gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation of South Africa.

Nqwebasaurus is the first African ornithomimosaur and the first Gondwanan member of this group known from articulated skeletal material, supporting the hypothesis that coelurosaurian groups were cosmopolitan during their early evolutionary history. The presence of reduced dentition and a gastric mill in Nqwebasaurus strongly

Nqwebasaurus is the earliest known coelurosaur from Gondwana, pre-dating other known North African taxa by 50 million years. It is also the first coelurosaur to be discovered and named from Africa. The type species, Nqwebasaurus thwazi, was described by de Klerk, Forster, Sampson, Chinsamy and Ross in 2000.

Nqwebasaurus was a tiny, meat-eating dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous period.