Nqwebasaurus
n-KWEB-ah-SORE-us /nˌkwɛbəˈsɔːrəs/
Accepted genus
Nqweba lizard
- Nqweba · Xhosa · the Xhosa name for the Kirkwood area of South Africa, where the fossil was found
- sauros · Greek · lizard
The name combines "Nqweba", a Xhosa name for the Kirkwood area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, with the Greek "sauros" (lizard). It refers to the place where the type specimen was found. The only named species is Nqwebasaurus thwazi.
- Named by
- de Klerk et al.
- Year named
- 2000
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Found in
- Kirkwood Formation, Eastern Cape, South Africa
A small, early coelurosaurian theropod, often regarded as a basal member of the ornithomimosaur lineage. It is one of the few theropods known from southern Africa in the Early Cretaceous. The exact stage ages are uncertain, so they are left blank here.