Nqwebasaurus
id:
nqwebasaurus-294-11383451
title:
Nqwebasaurus
text:
Nqwebasaurus is a basal coelurosaur and is the basal-most member of the coelurosaurian clade Ornithomimosauria from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa. The name Nqwebasaurus is derived from the Xhosa word Nqweba which is the local name for the Kirkwood district, and thwazi is ancient Xhosa for "fast runner". 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 Nqw
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of dinosaur
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nqwebasaurus
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-20T14:34:19Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Nqwebasaurus.jpg","width":2310,"height":1160}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15