Outline: a typical theropod
Nedcolbertia
- Lived
- 137 to 133 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United States
- Named by
- Kirkland et al. 1998
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
135 million years ago
Field notes
About Nedcolbertia
What it was like
Nedcolbertia was a small, lightly built theropod. It is known from parts of several young animals, so its adult size and shape are unclear.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now Utah. It comes from the Cedar Mountain Formation.
How it was found
Kirkland and colleagues named Nedcolbertia in 1998, in honor of a well known American paleontologist.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Coelurosauria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: J. I. Kirkland, B. B. Britt, and C. H. Whittle, S. K. Madsen, D. L. Burge. 1998. A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of eastern Utah. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:239-248