#vectidromeus

[alex-fictus]

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All of the V names in my Paleo Party! Are there any I'm missing?

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[si-nequal-is]

Vectidromeus insularis

Color scheme is based on king quail(Synoicus chinensis) and Ciel Phantomhive from <Black butler>

[totaldino]

Vectirdomeus

Vectidromeus is a basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of what is now England. It was a small, nimble, bipedal herbivore, closely related to Hypsilophodon. Vectidromeus is the only other genus in the group hypsilophodontidae, but has slight differences in the hips and femur.

[new-dinosaurs]

Vectidromeus insularis Longrich et al., 2023 (new genus and species)

(Type specimen of Vectidromeus insularis [scale bar = 50 mm], from Longrich et al., 2023)

Meaning of name: Vectidromeus = Isle of Wight runner [in Greek]; insularis = insular [in Latin]

Age: Early Cretaceous (Barremian or possibly Hauterivian)

Where found: Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, U.K.

How much is known: Partial skeleton of one individual including most of the hips, parts of the hindlimbs, and several tail vertebrae.

Notes: Vectidromeus was an ornithopod, a diverse group of plant-eating dinosaurs that includes the duck-billed hadrosaurids. Although hadrosaurids included the largest known ornithischian ("bird-hipped") dinosaurs and probably spent most of their time on all fours, the earliest ornithopods were small, bipedal forms, and it was this ancestral body plan that was retained by Vectidromeus.

The type specimen of Vectidromeus was probably a juvenile at the time of its death. In some ways, it resembles another small ornithopod from a slightly younger part of the Wessex Formation, Hypsilophodon. However, it differs from Hypsilophodon specimens at a similar growth stage in the shape of its hip bones, leading its describers to consider it a new species.

Reference: Longrich, N.R., D.M. Martill, M. Munt, M. Green, M. Penn, and S. Smith. 2023. Vectidromeus insularis, a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight, England. Cretaceous Research advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105707

[alex-fictus]

New Dinosaurs from 2024!

This is far from a complete list of the new species described and published in 2024, but these are all of the ones I managed to cover.

Vectidromeus - T. mcraeensis - Fona Koleken - Inawentu - Eoneophron

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Planned or in the works: Labocania, Lokiceratops, Tietasaura, Titanomachya, Thyreosaurus, Tiamat, Caletodraco

[alex-fictus]

Hey I’m wondering if you have the vectidromeues insularis in your store if not can you add them to the Cretaceous pack (:

The early ornithopods are getting a huge addition soon! The question for Vectidromeus is feathers or no feathers?? I drew their closest relative, Hypsilophodon, without feathers, but reconstructions for these guys are about 50/50 on it.

For the final Vectidromeus…?

Yes feathers!

No feathers!

Voting ended onOct 18, 2024