| Vectensia | |
|---|---|
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| Holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Archosauria |
| Superorder: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Thyreophora |
| Infraorder: | †Ankylosauria |
| Family: | †Nodosauridae |
| Genus: | †Vectensia Delair, 1982 |
Vectensia (meaning "for isle of wight") is a highly dubious genus of nodosaurid ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of England.
In 1982 Justin Delair informally named the genus Vectensia based on specimen GH 981.45, an armour plate. Like the holotype of Polacanthus it was found at Barnes High, but reportedly in an older layer, of the Lower Wessex Formation.[1] Blows in 1987 tentatively referred it to Polacanthus.[2]
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- ↑ Delair, J.B., 1982, "Notes on an armoured dinosaur from Barnes High, Isle of Wight", Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1980, 7(5): 297-302
- ↑ Blows W.T. (1987). The armoured dinosaur Polacanthus foxi, from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, Palaeontology. 30, 557–580