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Nqwebasaurus
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Nqwebasaurus is known from a partial skeleton lacking the skull, so the shape of the head is based on similar dinosaurs.
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- Pronounced
- n-qu-web-ah-sore-us
- Meaning of name
- Nqweba lizard
- Length
- 1m
- Diet
- carnivorous
- When it lived
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Mid Jurassic
(159 - 132 million years ago) - Found in
- South Africa
Taxonomic details
- Taxonomy
- Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotherapoda, Tetanurae, Avetherapoda, Coelurosauria, Nqwebasaurus
- Named by
- de Klerk, Forster, Sampson, Chinsamy and Ross (2000)
- Type species
- thwazi