Early Cretaceous life Artwork of a number of different prehistoric creatures that existed around million years ago during the Barremian era of the Early Cretaceous period around million years ago in what is now the Wessex Formation on the Isle of Wight UK Two Iguanodon centre left can be seen among a number of smaller Hypsilophodons one of which has been caught by a Goniopholis crocodile A spiny Polocanthus lower left feeds on some plants while a Baryonyx is catching a fish in the river Caulkichphalus and Istiodactylus pterosaurs fly overhead and a Brachiosaurus watches from the far bank