Genus: Nedcolbertia KIRKLAND, BRITT, WHITTLE, MADSEN & BURGE, 1998
Etymology: In honor of Edwin H. Colbert, one of the foremost dinosaur paleontologists of the twentieth century. Dr. Colbert is known as Ned to his friends and has conducted much significant research on small theropod dinosaurs.
= Genus: Nova KIRKLAND, BRITT, MADSEN & BURGE 1995

Species: justinhofmanni KIRKLAND, BRITT, WHITTLE, MADSEN & BURGE, 1998
Etymology: In honor of Justin Hofmann, a young boy from New Jersey, for his love of dinosaurs. The teaming of these two in the name of this small dinosaur is appropriate, as the many popular dinosaur books written by Ned Colbert were a major influence for several generations of budding dinosaur paleontologist.

Holotype: CEU 5071

Locality: CEU Locality #42GR 190v, 1 km east-northeast of Gaston Quarry CEU Locality #42GR 184v, northeast of Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah.

Horizon: Base of the Yellow Cat Member, Cedar Mountain Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Buffalogapian age, Barremian Stage, Lower Gallic Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Partial associated skeleton of a subadult specimen, including a few fragments of dorsal vertebrae, several caudal vertebrae fragments, proximal right and left femora, distal right tibia, distal right fibula, both calcanea, lateral half of main body of both astragali, distal and proximal ends of right metatarsals, several partial phalanges, 3 proximal unguals, a portion of the distal humerus, and numerous unidentified bone fragments, collected as float.

Referred material:

Numerous caudal centra, fragments of pelvis, distal left femur, left tibia, proximal right tibia, left fibula minus mid shaft, nearly complete set of left metatarsals, 14 phalanges, 3 pes unguals, partial pubis, and parts of ischium.

Paratypes:

Locality: Dalton Well Quarry, BYU Locality #7510, west side of Arches National Park, Grand County, Utah.

Horizon: Higher in the Yellow Cat Member, Cedar Mountain Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Buffalogapian age, Barremian Stage, Lower Gallic Subepoch, Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material:

CEU 5072: partial associated skeleton of a subadult specimen, including a few fragments of dorsal vertebrae, several fragments of caudal vertebrae, fragments of ilia, fragments of pubis, fused distal pubis, weathered fragment of proximal left and right femora, fragments of proximal and distal tibia, 2 distal ends of metatarsals, numerous partial and complete pes phalanges, 5 partial pes unguals, 4 possible manus phalanges, 2 partial first unguals, and 1 partial second ungual, all collected as float.

CEU 5073: A partial associated skeleton of a subadult specimen, including numerous fragments and a few complete caudal centra, several caudal neural arch fragments, several proximal chevrons, large fragments of both coracoids, a fragment of a proximal humerus, and numerous unidentified fragments, all collected as float.