DinoWight - Other Wealden Animals and Plants on the Isle of Wight

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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.

Pterosaurs	Plesiosaurs
Fish	Crocodiles
Turtles	Other Reptiles
Amphibians	Mammal
Invertebrates	Trace fossils
Plants

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*Caulkicephalus*	*Istiodactylus*
*Ornithocheirus*	Indet. giant pterosaurs

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Leptocleidus (V)

Indet. "plesiosaurian" (V)

Thanks to Langan Turner for both these plesiosaurs

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	All the below are from; INSOLE, A. N. and HUTT, S. 1994. Palaeoecology of the dinosaurs of the Wessex Formation (Wealden Group, Early Cretaceous), Isle of Wight, southern England. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112, 135-150. 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. and from Steve Sweetman of the University of Portsmouth Further information on these may appear on DinoWight, but don't hold your breath! Simon Clabby 2006 Clabby 2006

(Both bony fish and elasmobranchs (sharks))
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Bony Fish
*Caturus*	*Coelodus*
*Lepidotes*
Sharks
*Hybodus*	*Hylaeobatis*
*Lonchiodion*	Palaeoscyllium
Vectiselachos (V)

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*Bernissartia*	*Goniopholis*
*Hylaeochampsa*	*Oweniasuchus*
*Pholidosaurus*	*Suchosaurus* (See also HERE)
*Theriosuchus*	*Vectisuchus*

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*Helochelydra*	*Plesiochelys*
*Tretosternum*

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Anguimorphs

Scincomorph

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Albanerpetontidae	Anura
"Salamanders"

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

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*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)

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

*Ancorichnus*	*Beaconites*
*Ophiomorpha*	*Planolites*
*Skolithos*

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Mostly known from fragments, making genus-accurate identification nearly impossible

Pteridophytes (ferns)

Tempskya

Weichselia

Caytoniales

Cycadophytes

Gingkophytes

Charophytes

Coniferophytes (conifers)

? Dadoxylon

Pseudofrenelopsis

Angiosperms (flowering plants)

And numerous bits of amber...

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