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