Gideonmantellia Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2012
/ɡˈɪdɪˌɑːnmɐntˌɛlɪə/
estimated
Early Cretaceous (Barremian) · 125.8–121.4 Mya
Key Statistics
Diet
herbivore
Locomotion
bipedal
inferred from clade
Overview
Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae is an ornithopod dinosaur known from the Early Cretaceous, roughly 125.8–121.4 million years ago. It was a herbivore. It was named by Ruiz-Omeñaca et al. 2012. The species is represented by 1 recorded occurrence in the Paleobiology Database.
Fossil Record Completeness
How much of this profile is grounded in the fossil record
~5%
fragmentary record
Confirmed
Inferred
Based on 1 recorded occurrences in the Paleobiology Database.
Geologic Time
Where Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae sits in deep time
Gideonmantellia
252 Mya201 Mya145 Mya66 Mya
Relationships
Part of a wider fossil web
These species share Gideonmantellia amosanjuanae's place in deep time — computed from overlapping age ranges, shared clades, and inferred ecology.