Vectis
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Vectis Formation is a geological formation on the Isle of Wight and Swanage, England whose strata were formed in the Barremian, approximately 125 million years ago. The environment of deposition was that of a freshwater coastal lagoon with occasional marine influence after the early Aptian marine transgression, transitioning from the floodplain environment of the underlying Wessex Formation. The primary lithology is of laminated grey mudstones. The Vectis Formation is composed of three geological members: the Shepherds Chine member, the Barnes High Sandstone member, and the Cowleaze Chine member. It is overlain by the fully marine Atherfield Clay Formation, part of the Lower Greensand Group. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 7
Barnes High locality (Wealden) : England - Isle of Wight 4397 Lat long is for Hanover Point.- Changed to correct coordinates for Barnes High (several mi SE)- SZ 377840 Bernissartia locality (Wealden) : England - Isle of Wight 4398 14199 "...about midway between Compton Grange Chine and Hanover Point (map reference SZ 377840), at beach level in the second of the three lignitic bands depicted by Osborne White (1921)." SW coast of Isle of Wight
- 150 yards west of Cowleaze Chine : England - Isle of Wight 6980 53040 150 yards west of Cowlease Chine, Isle of Wight
- Iguanodon identifié comme Iguanodon mantelli
- cliff fall near Atherfield (BMNH) : England - Isle of Wight 6981 6982 18692 18694 64007 65100 82927 86249 cliff fall near Atherfield, Isle of Wight
"To the west is Shepherd’s Chine and, beyond this, an area well known to Hooley, where he described his finds in relation to Cowleaze Chine, some 300 m further to the west. This makes it almost certain that NHMUK PV R5764 was found on the foreshore of Brighstone Bay, between Shepherd’s Chine and Atherfield Point"
- Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis identifié comme Iguanodon atherfieldensis n. sp.
- Compton Bay beach (BMNH) : England - Isle of Wight 7123 14557 17002 31500 82791 on Compton Bay beach west of Hanover Point, near Brook, Isle of Wight. Only accessible at very low tide. Coordinates for Hanover Point. NGR = SZ 374 845
- near Atherfield Point, Brighstone Bay : England - Isle of Wight 78160
- Compton Chine gutter : England - Isle of Wight 85046 89074 more westerly of two exposures of the Vectis Fm. at Compton Chine, "found loose in an intermittently exposed gutter located approximately 10 m from the cliff face," just E of Compton Chine. "the remains were likely present on the foreshore due to a cliff fall (though the possibility remains that their presence is due to erosion through a wave cut platform)"
Publication(s)
La base comprend 21 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 E. Buffetaut and S. Hutt. 1980. Vectisuchus leptognathus, n. g. n. sp., a slender-snouted goniopholid crocodilian from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight . Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 7:385-390 (https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpm/1980/1980/385)
- ↑1 2 E. Buffetaut and R. L. E. Ford. 1979. The crocodilian Bernissartia in the Wealden of the Isle of Wight . Palaeontology 22(4):905-912
- ↑1 M. T. Carrano. 2025. Taxonomic opinions on the Dinosauria.
- ↑1 2 R. W. Hooley. 1912. On the discovery of remains of Iguanodon mantelli in the Wealden Beds of Brighstone Bay, Isle of Wight. Geological Magazine, series 5 9:444-449 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800115705)
- ↑1 R. W. Hooley. 1912. On the discovery of remains of Iguanodon mantelli in the Wealden Beds of Brightstone Bay, I.W., and the adaptation of the pelvic girdle in relation to an erect position and bipedal progression. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 81:390
- ↑1 2 R. W. Hooley. 1917. On the integument of Iguanodon bernissartensis, Boulenger, and of Morosaurus becklesii, Mantell. Geological Magazine, series 6 4:148-150 (https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800192386)
- ↑1 R. W. Hooley. 1925. On the skeleton of Iguanodon atherfieldensis sp. nov., from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London 81(1):1-61 (https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1925.081.01-04.02)
- ↑1 J. F. Jackson. 1931. A catalogue of Cretaceous fossils in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology, the Free Library, Sandown. Part II: Lower Cretaceous. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society 2(1):45-61
- ↑1 J. F. Jackson. 1933. An outline of the history of geological research in the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society 2(3):211-220
- ↑1 W. E. Swinton. 1933. A new exhibit of Iguanodon. Natural History Magazine 4(26):66-69
- ↑1 W. E. Swinton. 1934. A Guide to the Fossil Birds, Reptiles, and Amphibians in the Department of Geology and Paleontology in the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S.W. 7. (https://doi.org/10.2307/1125747)
- ↑1 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Ornithopod dinosaurs. Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:60-132
- ↑1 J. A. Bonsor, J. A. Lockwood, and J. V. Leite, A. Scott-Murray, S. C. R. Maidment. 2023. The osteology of the holotype of the British iguanodontian dinosaur Mantellisaurus atherfieldensis. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 177(665):1-63 (https://doi.org/10.1080/02693445.2023.2234156)
- ↑1 2 W. T. Blows. 1982. A preliminary account of a new specimen of Polacanthus foxi (Ankylosauria, Reptilia) from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society 1980 pt. 5(7):303-306
- ↑1 J. Pereda-Suberbiola. 1994. Polacanthus (Ornithischia, Ankylosauria), a transatlantic armoured dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Europe and North America. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 232(4-6):133-159 (https://doi.org/10.1127/pala/232/1994/133)
- ↑1 W. T. Blows. 1987. The armoured dinosaur Polacanthus foxi from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontology 30(3):557-580
- ↑1 P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273
- ↑1 D. Naish and D. M. Martill. 2001. Armoured dinosaurs: thyreophorans. Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 10:147-184
- ↑1 2 S. C. Sweetman. 2011. The Wealden of the Isle of Wight. English Wealden Fossils. The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils 14:52-78
- ↑1 2 C. T. Barker, J. A. Lockwood, and D. Naish, S. Brown, A. Hart, E. Tulloch, N. J. Gostling. 2022. A European giant: a large spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Vectis Formation (Wealden Group, Early Cretaceous), UK. PeerJ 10(4443):e13543 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13543)
- ↑1 C. T. Barker, D. Naish, and N. J. Gostling. 2023. Isolated tooth reveals hidden spinosaurid dinosaur diversity in the British Wealden Supergroup (Lower Cretaceous). PeerJ 11:e15453:1-40 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15453)
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