Outline: a typical theropod
Yaverlandia
"of Yaverland"
Type species Yaverlandia bitholus
- Lived
- 133 to 121 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Group
- Theropods
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Galton 1971
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
125 million years ago
Field notes
About Yaverlandia
What it was like
Yaverlandia is known only from part of a skull roof with two small thickened bumps. It was first thought to be a small dome-headed dinosaur, one of the oldest of its kind.
Later study showed that the bone probably came from a small meat eater instead, so its place among dinosaurs is uncertain.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern England. Its fossil comes from the Wessex Formation, where Iguanodon, Hypsilophodon and the hunter Neovenator also lived.
How it was found
Galton named Yaverlandia in 1971, from a single find.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Theropoda
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. M. Galton. 1971. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England and the function of the dome of pachycephalosaurids. Journal of Paleontology 45(1):40-47