| Fostoria | |
|---|---|
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| Preserved holotype | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Sauropsida |
| clade: | Dinosauria |
| Order: | †Ornithischia |
| Suborder: | †Ornithopoda |
| Genus: | †Fostoria Bell et al., 2019 |
| Type species | |
| †Fostoria dhimbangunmal Bell et al., 2019 | |
Fostoria (named after Robert Foster who discovered the type locality and bones; the specific name dhimbangunmal means "sheep yard" in the languages of the Yuwaalaraay, Yuwaalayaay, and Gamilaraay peoples of Australia) is a genus of iguanodontian ornithopod dinosaur from the Griman Creek Formation of New South Wales, Australia. The type and only species, Fostoria dhimbangunmal was described in 2019.
History of discovery[]
In 1984, Bob Foster, an opal miner, discovered a vertebra from an ornithopod in Lightning Ridge. Foster originally interpreted the fossil as a hoof belonging to a horse.[1] Foster eventually found so many fossils in his mine that he showed his finds to paleontologists of the Australian Museum in Sydney. After they had a look at the Fostoria fossils, paleontologist Alexander Ritchie with some army reservists travelled to the mine to excavate more fossils. The fossils were prepared but remained unstudied until 2015.[1] Foster in the early 21st century removed the finds from a private opal museum and exhibited them in, and later donated them to, the Australian Opal Museum in Lightning Ridge, where they remain to this day.[2]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Opal miner unearths new species of dinosaur". https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a27729924/opal-miner-unearths-new-species-of-dinosaur/.
- ↑ (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 Online edition: e1564757. DOI:10.1080/02724634.2019.1564757.
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