Contemporary organisms of the dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight

Contemporary organisms of the dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight

This is a (pretty much) complete (non-dinosaurian) faunal (animals) and floral (plants) list of the Wessex Formation (where most of the dinosaurs come from) With a few interesting Vectis Formation vertebrates (V) included.

Plesiosaurs

Fish

Bony fish

  • Belonostomus
  • Caturus
  • Coelodus
  • ?Scheenstia

Turtles

  • Helochelydra
  • Plesiochelys
  • Tretosternum

Other reptiles

  • Anguimorphs
  • Scincomorph

Amphibians

  • Albanerpetontidae
  • Anura (frogs)
  • “Salamanders”

Mammal

  • ? Loxaulax (possibly Boladon)
  • multituberculates
  • a spalacotheriid,
  • a ?zatherian
  • a gobiconodontid

Trace fossils

Please note that these are the names of the trace fossil, not the trace maker, as this can be impossible to determine

Invertebrates

  • Cretamygale (a spider)
  • Margaritifera (a freshwater bivalve)
  • Nipponaia (a freshwater bivalve)
  • Unio (a freshwater bivalve)
  • Viviparus (possibly-known from eggs only)
  • Ostracods
  • Unionid bivalves
  • Acritarchs (microfossil)
  • Dinoflagelates (microfossil)

And there are many others but they haven’t been named yet…

(Many thanks to Steve Sweetman)

Plants

  • Pteridophytes (ferns)
  • Tempskya
  • Weichselia
  • Caytoniales
  • Cycadophytes
  • Gingkophytes
  • Charophytes
  • Coniferophytes (conifers)
  • ? Dadoxylon
  • Pseudofrenelopsis
  • Angiosperms (flowering plants)