Foskeia pelendonum, a new rhabdodontomorph from the Lower Cretaceous of Salas de los Infantes (Burgos Province, Spain), and a new phylogeny of ornithischian dinosaurs

Citation

Dieudonné, P.; Becerra, M. G.; Zanesco, T.; Tortosa, T.; Cruzado-Caballero, P.; Stein, K.; Torcida Fernández-Baldor, F. (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). Wiley. doi:10.1002/spp2.70057

Names first published here

• Foskeia genus
• Foskeia pelendonum species

Cited by genera

• Convolosaurus

  Recovered Convolosaurus near Hypsilophodon, outside Iguanodontia.

• Cumnoria

  Recovers Cumnoria and Oblitosaurus as sister taxa among the early-diverging ankylopollexians.

• Foskeia

  Recovers Foskeia as the sister of Rhabdodontidae, a pair it names Rhabdodontia, within Rhabdodontomorpha.

• Iani

  Recovered Iani with Tenontosaurus in Thescelosaurinae, outside Iguanodontia.

• Kangnasaurus

  Recovers Kangnasaurus in an unresolved polytomy with the elasmarians.

• Oblitosaurus

  Recovers Oblitosaurus and Cumnoria as sister taxa among the early-diverging ankylopollexians.

• Tenontosaurus

  Recovered Tenontosaurus with Iani in Thescelosaurinae, outside Iguanodontia.

Cited by clades

• Elasmaria

  Recovers Elasmaria within Dryosauridae in an analysis of ornithischian relationships.