Outline: a typical ornithopod
Vectidromeus
"Wight runner"
Type species Vectidromeus insularis
- Lived
- 143 to 101 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods, Hypsilophodontidae
- Found in
- United Kingdom
- Named by
- Longrich et al. 2024
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
120 million years ago
Field notes
About Vectidromeus
What it was like
Vectidromeus was a small plant eater that ran on two legs, a close relative of Hypsilophodon. It is known from a partial skeleton of a young animal.
Its world
It lived in the Early Cretaceous, in what is now England.
How it was found
Longrich and colleagues named Vectidromeus in 2024. The type species is Vectidromeus insularis.
Close relatives
Other members of Hypsilophodontidae
Sources: WikidataNamed in: N. R. Longrich, D. M. Martill, and M. Munt, M. Green, M. Penn, S. Smith. 2024. Vectidromeus insularis, a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. Cretaceous Research 154:105707