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sharp-clawed runner · Doubtful name
Wyleyia
Say it like this: “WY-lee-yuh”
Wyleyia valdensis
Wyleyia ate meat and walked on two legs. It lived in the Early Cretaceous. Bones have been found in the United Kingdom.
- When
- Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian · Barremian) · roughly 132.6 to 121.4 million years ago
- Named in
- 1973 · Harrison, C. J. O.; Walker, C. A.
- Hip height
- Not established
- Length
- Not established
- Weight
- Not established
- Found in
- the United Kingdom
- Food and walking
- Carnivore · Two legs
- Kind
- sharp-clawed runner · Theropod
- Family branch
- Maniraptora
The story in short
The genus Wyleyia dates to 1973, the year C. J. O. Harrison and C. A. Walker described it. The name honors a person tied to the fossil or its study.
Fossils referred to Wyleyia date to the Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian · Barremian), roughly 132.6 to 121.4 million years ago. Finds come from the United Kingdom. It was a carnivore and walked on two legs.
The fossils of Wyleyia are too incomplete for a responsible length, hip height, or weight, so those fields are left blank on purpose.
On the family tree it sits in Maniraptora, among the theropod dinosaurs.
Close relatives
Archaeornithoides
Archaeornithoides deinosauriscus
Late Cretaceous (Campanian) · roughly 83.6 to 72.2 million years ago
Bradycneme
Bradycneme draculae
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago
Elopteryx
Elopteryx nopcsai
Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) · roughly 72.2 to 66 million years ago