Nqwebasaurus is a basal coelurosaur and potentially the basal-most member of the coelurosaurian clade Ornithomimosauria from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa.

[2] Currently it is the oldest coelurosaur in Africa and shows that basal coelurosaurian dinosaurs inhabited Gondwana 50 million years earlier than previously thought.

Again this is unusual trait for carnivorous theropod dinosaurs as gastroliths are more commonly found in herbivorous vertebrates and modern ostriches.

[1][6] However, many older studies have recovered different positions for the taxon amongst Coelurosauria, ranging from a basal member of the group, a compsognathid, or an alvarezsaurid.

[6] Zuolong Tanycolagreus Proceratosaurus Tyrannosauroidea Ornitholestes Compsognathidae Nqwebasaurus Pelecanimimus Shenzhousaurus Harpymimus Beishanlong Garudimimus Deinocheirus Anserimimus Gallimimus Ornithomimus Struthiomimus Alvarezsauroidea Therizinosauroidea Oviraptorosauria Paraves