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| NAME: | Meaning - Nqwebasaurus means "Nqweba lizard" - named for the district in which it was found Pronounced - en-KWEB-ah-SAWR-us {Note: the Q is pronounced as a click} Named By - de Klerk, Forster, Sampson, Chinsamy, and Ross When Named - 2000 |
| DIET: | Carnivore (meat-eater) - it may have eaten small mammals, reptiles and insects. |
| SIZE: | Length - 2.5 ft (80 cm) long Height - 13 ft (33 cm) tall at the hips Weight - 1.3 pounds (580 gm) |
| WHEN IT LIVED: | Early Cretaceous period, about 135-130 million years ago |
| WHERE IT LIVED: | Fossils have been found in the Kirkwood Formation in the Algoa Basin, Eastern Cape, South Africa. This specimen has been nicknamed "Kirky." |
| FOSSILS: | What Has Been Found - A 70 percent complete fossil was found. Who Found the Fossils - Nqwebasaurus was found by William de Klerk and Callum Ross. |
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This chicken-sized dinosaur was found containing gizzard stones (stones it swallowed to help grind up its food). |
| LINKS: | A page on when Nqwebasaurus was found. |
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