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."
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."
== History of discovery == In 2016, Dieudonné et al. reported the discovery of at least five individuals of a gracile, small-bodied ornithopod (approximately long), representing several distinct ontogenetic stages. Despite the abundance of material, the describers refrained from assigning a binomial name to it, instead referring to it as the "Vegagete ornithopod," after the locality where the fossils were found. This locality is part of the Castrillo de la Reina Formation (Cameros Basin) in Burgos Province, Spain, a site known for its rich diversity of Early Cretaceous dinosaur remains.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).