恐龍卡第 1249 張，共 2 027 張

Nedcolbertia

名字的意思： “Ned Colbert's lizard”1

吃：肉肉食恐龍白堊紀早期

Nedcolbertia was a small, fast meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah during the Early Cretaceous. It ran on two legs and had a big thumb claw for grabbing prey.1 4

生存年代

137 到 133 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Utah, USA1 4

長度

1.5 到 3 m (4.9 到 9.8 ft)1

體重

最多 50 kg (110 lb)2

最高速度

時速約 50 公里（31 英里）

跑步, 估計值

牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

牠有多重？

跟 2.5 隻狗一樣重

跟 3 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 17 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 12 隻家貓一樣重跟 10 顆西瓜一樣重跟 2.5 個幼兒園小朋友一樣重跟 1.5 個小學生一樣重能在 7.2 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Nedcolbertia 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Nedcolbertia 時速約 50 公里 (31 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

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趣味知識

Nedcolbertia is named after famous paleontologist Edwin Harris Colbert, who was called Ned by his friends.1

The species name justinhofmanni honors a six-year-old boy who won a dinosaur-naming contest.1

Three partial skeletons of Nedcolbertia were found in 1993 near Cisco, Utah, in the Cedar Mountain Formation.1

The fossils were disarticulated and heavily eroded because they had been lying on the ground before discovery.1

Nedcolbertia had a thumb claw that was much larger than the other hand claws, which it may have used to catch prey.1

Scientists are not sure exactly what group of theropods Nedcolbertia belongs to. Some think it was an ornithomimosaur, others think it was an allosauroid or megalosauroid.1

Nedcolbertia 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Nedcolbertia 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

你們都在問

關於 Nedcolbertia 最常被問的問題

?How big was Nedcolbertia?

About 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) long for the juvenile holotype, and about 3 metres (9.8 ft) for the subadult paratypes.1

?What did Nedcolbertia eat?

It was a meat-eating dinosaur, so it ate other animals. It had a big thumb claw that it may have used to grab prey.1

?Is Nedcolbertia an ornithomimosaur?

Scientists are not sure. Some studies say it was an ornithomimosaur (an ostrich dinosaur), but others think it might be an allosauroid or megalosauroid.1 3

?When did Nedcolbertia live?

It lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 136 to 130 million years ago (Valanginian age).1

給恐龍專家

學名: Nedcolbertia
命名者: Kirkland et al. 19984
類群: 肉食恐龍
科 / 演化支: Coelurosauria4
分類: Theropoda4
岩石的年代: 137 到 133 百萬年 (Valanginian)4
岩層: Cedar Mountain4
國家: 美國4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 2 筆4
發現: Nedcolbertia was named in 1998 by Kirkland, Whittle, Britt, Madsen, and Burge. The fossils were found in 1993 by Christopher Whittle in Utah.1
仍有爭議: Scientists still debate whether Nedcolbertia was an ornithomimosaur, an allosauroid, or a megalosauroid.1