Yaverlandia

DV-0210 · 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

Field notes

About Yaverlandia

Yaverlandia was a meat-eating theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 133 to 121 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Yaverlandia, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Wessex Formation. It was named by Galton in 1971.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

125 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Theropoda.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, 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