Vectipelta (meaning "Isle of Wight shield") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur recovered from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation of England.

[5] A May 2023 study proposing a paraphyletic Nodosauridae included the "Spearpoint ankylosaur" in its phylogenetic dataset, although it was given the placeholder name "Polywotsit" in the supplementary information.

[6] In June 2023, Pond et al. described Vectipelta barretti as a new genus and species of ankylosaurian based on these fossil remains.

[1] Vectipelta is the first ankylosaur identified from the Isle of Wight in 142 years, suggesting that the myriad of specimens previously assigned to Polacanthus and Hylaeosaurus may actually represent multiple taxa.

The results of their phylogenetic analyses are shown in the cladogram below, with Wealden Group ankylosaurs highlighted:[1] Sarcolestes Cedarpelta Hoplitosaurus Polacanthus Niobrarasaurus Hylaeosaurus Gastonia Panoplosauridae Struthiosauridae Borealopelta Vectipelta Zhejiangosaurus Dongyangopelta Ankylosauridae The Wessex Formation spans a considerable period of time of probably several million years, and therefore not all animals known from the formation are likely to have been contemporaneous.