Nqwebasaurus thwazi

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.

Nqwebasaurus thwazi

J-H. Jang · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NqwebasaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivore, omnivorePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithomimosauria
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithomimosauria

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 132.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Nqwebasaurus thwazi on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Kirkwood — 33.38°S, 25.25°E

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The named rock units Nqwebasaurus thwazi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Nqwebasaurus thwazi and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Nqwebasaurus thwazi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Nqwebasaurus thwazi, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Nqwebasaurus thwazi

Credit
J-H. Jang
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Nqwebasaurus thwazi was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itNqwebasaurus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Klerk et al. 2000