Wyleyia
Name: Wyleyia.
Phonetic: Wy-le-ah.
Named By: C. J. O. Harrison & C.
A. Walker - 1973.
Classification: Chordata, Dinosauria,
Saurischia, Theropoda, Euornithes.
Species: W. valdensis
(type).
Diet: Uncertain.
Size: Unknown due to lack of fossil remains.
Known locations: England, Sussex.
Time period: Valanginian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Partial right humerus.
Wyleyia is a genus of very primitive bird that lived in England during the early Cretaceous.
Further reading
- Wyleyia: a new bird humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of
England. Palaeontology 16(4):721-728. - C. J. O.
Harrison & C. A. Walker - 1973.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Random favourites
 |
 |
 |