Vectipelta
| Vectipelta Temporal range: Early Cretaceous,
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| V. barretti holotype at the Dinosaur Isle Museum with a modeled skull (no cranial bones are known from this taxon) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | †Ornithischia |
| Clade: | †Thyreophora |
| Clade: | †Ankylosauria |
| Genus: | †Vectipelta Pond et al., 2023 |
| Species: | †V. barretti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Vectipelta barretti Pond et al., 2023
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Vectipelta (meaning "Isle of Wight shield") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur recovered from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of England. The genus contains a single species, V. barretti, known from a partial skeleton including several osteoderms. It was historically known as the "Spearpoint ankylosaur" prior to its description.