Yaverlandia

Yaverlandia Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N
Skull
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Clade:	Dinosauria
Order:	Saurischia
Suborder:	Theropoda
Clade:	Maniraptora
Genus:	†Yaverlandia Galton, 1971
Species
Y. bitholus Galton, 1971 (type)

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.