Outline: a typical ornithopod
Fostoria
- Lived
- 101 to 94 million years ago, Late Cretaceous
- Diet
- Herbivore
- Group
- Ornithopods
- Found in
- Australia
- Named by
- Bell et al. 2019
Where its fossils were found
The evidence
Today
95 million years ago
Field notes
About Fostoria
What it was like
Fostoria was a plant eater related to Iguanodon. It is known from bones of several individuals, which had turned to opal inside the rock.
Its world
It lived in the Late Cretaceous in Australia. Its bones come from the Griman Creek Formation, where the small plant eater Weewarrasaurus also lived.
How it was found
Bell and colleagues named it in 2019. It is named after the opal miner who found the site.
Lived alongside
Found in the same rock formations
Close relatives
Other members of Elasmaria
Sources: WikidataNamed in: P. R. Bell, T. Brougham, and M. C. Herne, T. Frauenfelder, E. T. Smith. 2019. Fostoria dhimbangunmal, gen. et sp. nov., a new iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the mid-Cretaceous of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(1):e1564757:1-18