Wyleyia
| Wyleyia | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | Theropoda |
| Clade: | Avialae |
| Clade: | Euornithes |
| Genus: | †Wyleyia Walker , 1973
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| Species: | †W. valdensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Wyleyia valdensis Harrison & Walker, 1973
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Wyleyia is an extinct genus of birds, containing a single species, Wyleyia valdensis, known from the early Cretaceous period of Sussex, England. The genus is known from a single specimen, a damaged right humerus. It was named to honor J. F. Wyley, who found the specimen in Weald Clay deposits of Henfield in Sussex (England). The specific name valdensis means "from the Weald".
The bone was found in the
Hastings Beds, a series of Valanginian deposits,[1] dated to between 140 and 136 million years ago.[2]
Sometimes believed to be from a non-
C.A. Walker found it "advisable to consider the new genus incertae sedis until further evidence of affinity is forthcoming."[3]
References
- ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ^ Gradstein, F.M.; Ogg, J.G. & Smith, A.G.; (2004): A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Harrison, C.J.O. and Walker, C.A. (1973): Wyleyia: a new bird humerus from the Lower Cretaceous of England. Palaeontology 16(4): 721-728. PDF fulltext