Nqwebasaurus thwazi de Klerk et al. 2000 (ornithomimosaur)

Reptilia - Saurischia

Full reference: W. J. de Klerk, C. A. Forster, S. D. Sampson, A. Chinsamy, and C. F. Ross. 2000. A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):324-332

Belongs to Nqwebasaurus according to P. C. Sereno 2017

See also Alifanov and Saveliev 2015, Choiniere et al. 2010, Choiniere et al. 2012, Claessens and Loewen 2016, de Klerk et al. 2000, Fernandes de Azevedo et al. 2013, Forster et al. 2009, Galton and Molnar 2012, Gishlick and Gauthier 2007, Holtz et al. 2004, Hunt and Quinn 2018, Le Loeuff et al. 2012, McFeeters et al. 2016 and McPhee et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AM 6040, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is 17 km west of Kirkwood, which is in a Berriasian/Valanginian terrestrial mudstone in the Kirkwood Formation of South Africa.

Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-omnivore

Distribution: found only at 17 km west of Kirkwood

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