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Thescelosauridae

Fona herzogae FO-na

Generic ornithopod body-plan outline
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Fona 3 m (9.8 ft) long
as long as 2 people standing fingertip to fingertip
generic ornithopod body plan, scaled to length — not a silhouette of Fona
Length
3 m (9.8 ft)
Period
Late Cretaceous (100.5–93.9 Mya)
Food
Herbivore
Clade
Thescelosauridae

Fona is a thescelosauridae known from the Cretaceous period, of uncertain origin. Most of what’s published comes from a small number of specimens, and the fuller picture of how it lived is still being worked out.

What we know

  • Originally named by Avrahami et al. 2024.