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.