Also known as Callawayasaurus colombiensis referred
Where: Boyacá, Colombia (5.6° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 42.2° W)
When: Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)
• 100 metres distant and 10 metres stratigraphically separate from Loma de la Catalina locality.
•Bürgl (1954) lists the associated ammonites as Deshayesites colombianus Riedel, D. sp. indet., Procheloniceras albrechti austriae (Hohenegger), and Cheloniceras subnodoscostatum (Sinzow).
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, gypsiferous, hematitic, gray, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Dr R. A Stirton in 1948
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Museo del Servicio Geológico, Bogota collection
Primary reference: S. P. Welles. 1962. A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 44(1):1-96 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 116640: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 10.09.2011
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Taxonomic list
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"Alzadasaurus colombiensis" = Callawayasaurus colombiensis
"Alzadasaurus colombiensis" = Callawayasaurus colombiensis Welles 1962 elasmosaur Museo del Sevico Geológico, Bogotá (partial skeleton)
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