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Yaverlandia bitholus

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Yaverlandia bitholus was named by Galton (1971). Its type specimen is MIWG 1530, a skull, and it is not a trace fossil. Its type locality is Yaverland Battery, Sandown, which is in a Hauterivian/Barremian fluvial siltstone/marl in the Wessex Formation of the United Kingdom. It is the type species of Yaverlandia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1971Yaverlandia bitholus Galton
1975Yaverlandia bitholus Galton p. 748
1979Yaverlandia bitholus Wall and Galton p. 1185 fig. 5
1989Yaverlandia bitholus Hutt et al. p. 145
1990Yaverlandia bitholus Dodson p. 562
1990Yaverlandia bitholus Maryanska p. 566
1994Yaverlandia bitholus Olshevsky and Ford p. 91
1997Yaverlandia bitholus Norman p. 784
1998Yaverlandia bitholus Blows p. 32
2003Yaverlandia bitholus Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo p. 298
2003Yaverlandia bitholus Williamson and Carr fig. 11
2004Yaverlandia bitholus Maryanska et al. p. 465
2004Yaverlandia bitholus Norman p. 436
2006Yaverlandia bitholus Sullivan p. 361
2008Yaverlandia bitholus Naish and Martill p. 620
2009Yaverlandia bitholus Butler and Sullivan p. 32

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
informalAvemetatarsalia
Ornithodira
Dinosauromorpha
Dinosauriformes
Dinosauria()
Theropoda()
genusYaverlandia
speciesbitholus

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Yaverlandia bitholus Galton 1971
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
P. M. Galton 1971Same as for genus.