Foskeia
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Foskeia
DV-1304 · type species Foskeia pelendonum
- Lived
- 126 to 120 million years ago, Early Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Spain
- Named by
- Dieudonné et al. 2026
Field notes
About Foskeia
Foskeia was a plant-eating ornithopod that lived in the Early Cretaceous, 126 to 120 million years ago.
The Paleobiology Database lists 1 find of Foskeia, from Spain. Its fossils come from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation. It was named by Dieudonné et al. in 2026.
The evidence
Where its fossils were found
Today
125 million years ago
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations.
Sources: Paleobiology Database, WikidataNamed in: P. Dieudonné, M. G. Becerra, and T. Zanesco, T. Tortosa, P. Cruzado‐Caballero, K. Stein, F. Torcida Fernández‐Baldor. 2026. Foskeia pelendonum, a new rhabdodontomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos Province, Spain), and a new phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs. Papers in Palaeontology 12(1):1-52