Further Reading and References

This are a limited list of books that are especially for people interested in the Isle of Wight geologically and palaeontologically. There are also many scientific papers available, the information from which has been used heavily in these books and on DinoWight, but a select list of these can be found on the DinoWight reference page. Many of these are available from university libraries, and from certain larger libraries, but some are available on-line.

English Wealden Fossils, a hefty volume covering everything found in the Wealden group of England, including the Isle of Wight.

This is very hard to get hold of at the moment, so good luck getting a copy, although some sections are available via ResearchGate (not the dinosaur bits, though.)

The only place I’ve been able to find it for less than £900 (!) is the Dinosaur Isle shop, so drop them an e-mail and order it from there!

Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight, by David M. Martill and Darren Naish. This book is published by the Palaeontological Association, and contains information on every single dinosaur and pterosaur ever found on the island up to 2001.

This has a lot of information, and even has a guide for fossil walk, but has become a bit pricey these days…

Dinosaurs of the British Isles is a definitive guide to, well, the dinosaurs of the British Isles!

It’s also heavily illustrated, so if you’re after images of dinosaur bones for identification purposes, this is the book for you!

This book features walking guides to see the geology, but does not focus much on the dinosaurs found at each locality. It is also a bit out of date and apocryphal, as it suggests using Cowleaze Chine for access to the beach, although last time I tried this it was 10 metres from Cowleaze Chine to the beach; straight down.

This book is more for the geologists among you.

An amusing, illustrated, dramatised account for children which tells the real life story of the discovery of Vectidraco. The title is taken from the translation of the Latin name of the new pterosaur Vectidraco daisymorrisae.

Academic References

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ANDREWS, C. W. 1922. Description of a New Plesiosaur from the Weald Clay of Berwick (Sussex); Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 28 285-298.

ANON. The Discovery of the Island’s largest Dinosaur. Dinosaur Farm Museum, 7pp.

ARKHANGELSKY, M. S. 1998 On the ichthyosaurian genus Platypterygius. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal. 6, 611-619.

AUSTEN, P.A., BATTEN, D.J., 2018. English Wealden fossils: an update, Proc. Geol. Assoc. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.02.007

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CLARK, J. M. and NORELL, M. A. 1992. The Early Cretaceous Crocodylomorph Hylaeochampsa vectiana from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, American Museum Novitates. 3032, 1-19.

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DELAIR, J. B. 1985. Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from the Isle of Wight: a brief history. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society. 7, 609-615.

DELAIR J. B. 1989. A History of Dinosaur Footprint Discoveries in the British Wealden. In: GILLETTE D. D. and LOCKLEY M. G. (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Cambridge University Press, 19-26.

DELAIR, J. B. and SARJEANT, W. A. S. 1985. History and bibliography of the study of fossil vertebrate footprints in the British Isles: Supplement 1973-1983. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 49, 123-160.

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EVANS, S. E., BARRETT, P. M. and WARD, D. J. 2003.The first record of lizards and amphibians from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous: Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 115, 239-247.

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GALTON, P. M. 1971b. A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the lower Cretaceous of England and the function of the dome of pachycephalosaurids. Journal of Paleontology, 45, 40-47.

GALTON, P. M. 1974. The Ornithischian Dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Bull., Brit. Mus. Nat. History. 152pp.

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ALTON, P. M. 1977. The ornithopod dinosaur Dryosaurus and a Laurasia-Gondwanaland connection in the Upper Jurassic. Nature 268, 230-232.

GALTON, P. M. 1981. Dryosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America and Africa. Postcranial Skeleton. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 55, 271-312.

GALTON, P. M. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England – Hypsilophodon,Valdosaurus, “Camptosaurus”, “Iguanodon” – and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, 28, 211-273.

GALTON, P. M. and TAQUET, P. 1982. Valdosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe and Africa. Geobios, 15, 147-159.

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HOOLEY, R. W., 1913, On the Skeleton of Ornithodesmus latidens; an Ornithosaur from the Wealden Shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 96 (274), 372-422.

HOOLEY, R. W., 1917, On the Integument of Iguanodon bernissartensis, BOULENGER, and of Morosaurus becklesii, MANTELL: Geological Magazine, 4, 148-150.

HOWSE, S. and MILNER, A. R. 1993. Ornithodesmus– a maniraptoran theropod dinosaur from the lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England. Palaeontology, 36, 425-437.

HOWSE, S. MILNER, A. R.and MARTILL, D. M. 2001. Pterosaurs.In MARTILL, D. M. and NAISH, D (eds). Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. The Palaeontological Association. Field Guide to Fossils 10, 324-335.

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HULKE, J. W. 1881. Polacanthus Foxii, a Large Undescribed Dinosaur from the Wealden Formation in the Isle of Wight. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 172, 653-662.

HULKE, J. W. 1882. An Attempt at a Complete Osteology of Hypsilophodon Foxii; a British Wealden Dinosaur. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 173, 1035-1062.

HULKE, J. W. 1887.VII. Supplemental Note on Polacanthus Foxii, describing the Dorsal Shield and some Parts of the Endoskeleton, imperfectly known in 1881. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 178, 169-172.

HUTT, S. 1999. Neovenator salerii: a new theropod dinosaur from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, it’s status and significance for theropod evolution. Unpublished MPhil thesis, University of Portsmouth, 196 pp.

HUTT, S. 2001. Appendix; Catalogue of Wealden Group dinosauria in the Museum of Isle of Wight Geology. In MARTILL, D. M. and NAISH, D (eds). Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. The Palaeontological Association. Field Guide to Fossils 10, 411-422.

HUTT, S. MARTILL, D. M. and BARKER, M. J. 1996. The first European allosaurid dinosaur (lower Cretaceous, Wealden Group, England). N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Mb, 1996, 635-644.

HUTT, S., NAISH, D., MARTILL, D. M., BARKER, M. J. and NEWBERY, P. 2001. A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England. Cretaceous Research, 22, 227-242.

HUTT, S. and NEWBERY, P. 2004. An exceptional theropod vertebra from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Isle of Wight Natural History and Archaeological Society. 20, 61-76.

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MADER, B. J. and BRADLEY, R. L. 1989. A redescription and revised diagnosis of the syntypes of the Mongolian tyrannosaur Alectrosaurus olseni. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 9 (1), 41-55.

MANTELL, G. 1825. Notice on the Iguanodon, a Newly Discovered Fossil Reptile, from the Sandstone of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 115. 179-186.

MANTELL, G. 1848. On the structure of the jaws and teeth of the Iguanodon. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 131, 131-151.

MANTELL, G. 1850. On the Pelorosaurus; an undescribed gigantic terrestrial reptile, whose remains are associated with those of the Iguanodon and other saurians in the strata of Tilgate Forest, in Sussex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 140, 379-390.

MARTILL, D. M. 2001. Taphonomy and Preservation. In MARTILL, D. M. and NAISH, D (eds). Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight. The Palaeontological Association. Field Guide to Fossils 10. 49-59.

MARTILL, D. M. and HUTT, S. 1996. Possible baryonychid dinosaur teeth from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, England. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 107, 81–84.

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NAISH, D. 2002. The historical taxonomy of the Lower Cretaceous theropods (Dinosauria) Calamospondylus and Aristosuchus from the Isle of Wight. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 113, 153–163.

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