Vectiraptor
VEK-tih-RAP-tor /ˌvɛktɪˈræptər/
Accepted genus
Vectis plunderer (Isle of Wight robber)
- Vectis · Latin · the Roman name for the Isle of Wight
- raptor · Latin · plunderer, robber
The name combines "Vectis", the Roman name for the Isle of Wight, with the Latin word for "plunderer" or "robber". It refers to the island where the fossils were found. It also marks the animal as a raptorial dromaeosaurid, the first one known from the British Mesozoic.
- Named by
- Longrich et al.
- Year named
- 2021
- Period
- Early Cretaceous
- Stage
- Barremian
- Found in
- Wessex Formation, Isle of Wight, England, UK
A small dromaeosaurid theropod. The type species is Vectiraptor greenhilli. It is known from fragmentary remains, mainly a partial sacrum and vertebrae. It was described as the first dromaeosaurid from the Mesozoic of Britain.