Dinosauria›Ornithischia›Thescelosauridae
Fona Fona herzogae Avrahami et al. 2024
/ˈfoʊtnɑː/
Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) · 100.5–93.9 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
Unknown
Habitat
ground-dwelling
Social
herding
Where It Was Found
Country
United States
Region
Utah
Formation
Cedar Mountain
Dig sites
3
distinct collections
Overview
Fona herzogae is a dinosaur known from the Late Cretaceous, roughly 100.5–93.9 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It is recorded as ground-dwelling and herding. Fossils have been recovered from Utah, United States. It was named by Avrahami et al. 2024. The species is represented by 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~11%
confidence from occurrence count
Based on 3 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Fona herzogae sits in deep time
Fona
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Fona herzogae's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology. Predator–prey pairs additionally have to have been dug up in the same place.