Vectipelta

DV-1222 · type species Vectipelta barretti

Lived: 139 to 137 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
Diet: Herbivore
Group: Ankylosaurs
Found in: United Kingdom
Named by: Pond et al. 2023

Field notes

About Vectipelta

Vectipelta was a plant-eating ankylosaur that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 139 to 137 million years ago.

The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Vectipelta, from United Kingdom. Its fossils come from the Wessex Formation. It was named by Pond et al. in 2023.

The evidence

Where its fossils were found

Today

1 find

140 million years ago

Map: C. R. Scotese, PALEOMAP

Lived alongside

Found in the same rock formations.

Close relatives

Other members of Ankylosauria.

Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: S. Pond, S.-J. Strachan, and T. J. Raven, M. I. Simpson, K. Morgan, S. C. R. Maidment. 2023. Vectipelta barretti, a new ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, UK. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 21(1):2210577