Dinosauria › Ornithischia
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Vectipelta
Vectipelta barretti Pond et al. 2023
Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) · 139.1–137.1 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
quadrupedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Vectipelta barretti is an ankylosaur dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 139.1–137.1 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Pond et al. 2023. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Vectipelta sits in deep time
Vectipelta
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Vectipelta's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.