Also known as Yaguarasaurus columbianus type
Where: Huila, Colombia (2.8° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 52.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: La Frontera Member (Villeta Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. E. Páramo. 1994. Posicion sistematica de un reptil marino con base en los restos fosiles encontrados en capas del Cretacico superior en Yaguara (Huila). Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 19(72):63-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 122676: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.01.2012, edited by Jonathan Tennant
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mosasauridae indet., Yaguarasaurus columbianus n. gen. n. sp.
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
Yaguarasaurus columbianus n. gen. n. sp. Páramo 1994 mosasaur BRV-68 - holotype (Skull and incomplete jaws, atlas, axis, first cervical vertebra, two anterior dorsal vertebrae and fragments of ribs)
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