Remains of small hypsilophodontid dinosaur unearthed on Isle of Wight- Vectidromeus insularis

[Prehistory Resurrection]

Link to article: https://www.sci.news/paleontology/vectidromeus-insularis-12266.html

[Dynomikegojira]

That group actually exists?

[Halichoeres]

That group actually exists?

Do you mean Hypsilophodontidae? It does seem to have fallen out of favor. Longrich et al. seem to be using it to mean just Hypsilophodon + Vectiraptor, rather than the broad, probably paraphyletic sense it used to have.

[Dynomikegojira]

That group actually exists?

Do you mean Hypsilophodontidae? It does seem to have fallen out of favor. Longrich et al. seem to be using it to mean just Hypsilophodon + Vectiraptor, rather than the broad, probably paraphyletic sense it used to have.

Yeah true

[Halichoeres]

That group actually exists?

Do you mean Hypsilophodontidae? It does seem to have fallen out of favor. Longrich et al. seem to be using it to mean just Hypsilophodon + Vectiraptor, rather than the broad, probably paraphyletic sense it used to have.

Yeah true

Oops, duh, I meant Vectidromeus, not Vectiraptor. With Vectipelta, does that make three Vecti--- animals described based on scraps from the Isle of Wight?

[Newt]

They're getting up there with the Fukui- clan. I do wish more researchers would give their animals descriptive names. 

[Halichoeres]

They're getting up there with the Fukui- clan. I do wish more researchers would give their animals descriptive names.

I imagine with the place-specific names it's a lot easier to be sure you're not accidentally in preoccupied territory.