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YAVERLANDIA
(yah-ver-land-e-ah)
meaning: "from Yaverland"
Yaverlandia
Named By: Peter M. Galton in 1971
Time Period: Lower Cretaceous
Location: England, Isle of Wight - Wessex Formation
Size: Unknown
Diet: Herbivore
Fossil(s): Partial skull
Classification: | Chordata | Reptilia | Dinosauria | Saurischia | Theropoda | Maniraptora |
About

Yaverlandia is a genus of theropod dinosaur. Known from a partial fossil skull found in Lower Cretaceous strata of the Wessex Formation on the Isle of Wight, it was described as the earliest known member of the pachycephalosaurid family, but recent research by Darren Naish shows it to have actually been a theropod, seemingly a maniraptoran. Yaverlandia was named from where it was found, Yaverland Point.

Read more about Yaverlandia at Wikipedia
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