Vectipelta barretti
"Isle of Wight shield"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Vectipelta 5 m (16.4 ft) long
as long as 3 people standing fingertip to fingertip
- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- United Kingdom
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
Vectipelta (meaning “Isle of Wight shield”) is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur recovered from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of England. The genus contains a single species, V. barretti, known from a partial skeleton including several osteoderms. It was historically known as the “Spearpoint ankylosaur” prior to its description.
What we know
- Named by Pond et al., 2023.
- Fossils found in United Kingdom.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Vectipelta — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.