Foskeia pelendonum Foskeia
"Etymology TBD"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Foskeia 50 cm (1.6 ft) long
1 person — shorter than 50 cm (1.6 ft)
- Length
- 50 cm (1.6 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria
Foskeia is an extinct genus of rhabdodontomorph ornithopod dinosaurs known from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian to Aptian ages) Castrillo de la Reina Formation of Spain. The genus contains a single species, Foskeia pelendonum, known from fossils of multiple individuals of different ontogenetic stages. Before its formal description, it had been nicknamed the “Vegagete ornithopod.”
What we know
- Body length estimated at about 0.5 m.
- Fossils found in Spain.