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Nedcolbertia
Fossil range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification

Kingdom:

Animalia

Phylum:

Chordata

Class:

Sauropsida

Superorder:

Dinosauria

Order:

Saurischia

Suborder:

Theropoda

(Unranked) :

Coelurosauria

Family:

Coeluridae?

Genus:

Nedcolbertia
Kirkland et al., 1998

Species:

  • N. justinhoffmanii

Nedcolbertia (named after Edwin Colbert) is the name given to a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a coelurosaur which lived in North America. The type species, N. justinhoffmanii, was described by Kirkland, Britt, Whittle, Madsen and Burge in 1998.

This coelurosaur was 10 feet long, and was found in Lower Cretaceous strata in Utah.

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