Nedcolbertia

Nedcolbertia Temporal range: Early Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Sauropsida
Superorder:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
(unranked):	Coelurosauria
Family:	Coeluridae?
Genus:	Nedcolbertia
Binomial name
Nedcolbertia justinhofmanni Kirkland et al., 1998

Nedcolbertia (named after Edwin Colbert) is a genus of dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Period. It was a 10-foot-long (3.0 m) coelurosaur which lived in North America during the Barremian. Kirkland, Britt, Madsen and Burge in 1995 reported its discovery in the basal Cedar Mountain Formation in Utah.^[1] The type species, N. justinhofmanni, was described by Kirkland, Britt, Whittle, Madsen and Burge in 1998.^[2]

References

1. ^ J. I. Kirkland, B. B. Britt, S. Madsen and D. Burge. A Small Theropod from the Basal Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of Eastern Utah. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 15(3), 39A (1995).
2. ^ J. I. Kirkland, B. B. Britt, C. H. Whittle, S. K. Madsen and D. L. Burge, A small coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of eastern Utah. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 14 (1998), pp. 239–248.

Further reading

• Nedcolbertia in the Dinosaur Encyclopaedia
• Kirkland, J. I. Biogeography of Western North America's Mid-Cretaceous Dinosaur Faunas: Losing European Ties and the First Great Asian-North American Interchange. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 16(3), 45A (1996).

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