Yaverlandia bitholus Galton 1971 (theropod)

Reptilia - Theropoda

Full reference: 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

Belongs to Yaverlandia according to R. M. Sullivan 2006

See also Blows 1998, Butler and Sullivan 2009, Dodson 1990, Galton 1971, Galton 1975, Hutt et al. 1989, Maryanska 1990, Maryanska et al. 2004, Naish and Martill 2008, Norman 1997, Norman 2004, Olshevsky and Ford 1994, Ruiz-OmeƱaca and Canudo 2003, Wall and Galton 1979 and Williamson and Carr 2003

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MIWG 1530, a skull. Its type locality is Yaverland Battery, Sandown, which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian fluvial siltstone/marl in the Wessex Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore

Distribution: found only at Yaverland Battery, Sandown

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