Foskeia pelendonum
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Foskeia 50 cm (1.6 ft) long
about the size of a house cat
- Length
- 50 cm (1.6 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (145–100 Mya)
- Place
- Spain
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dinosauria The clade containing all dinosaurs, terrestrial archosaurs with upright limbs.
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.
What we guess
The reconstruction notes for Foskeia — soft tissue, color, behavior — haven't been written up yet. Only the recorded basics above are filled in so far.