El Ocal stream (upper section), 26 km southwest of Neiva (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Also known as Yaguarasaurus columbianus referred

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)

• 6 metres higher in the section than the holotype of Yaguarasaurus columbianus

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. E. Páramo-Fonseca. 2000. Yaguarasaurus columbianus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae), a primitive mosasaur from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Colombia. Historical Biology 14(1-2):121-131 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122680: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 05.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Yaguarasaurus columbianus Páramo 1994 mosasaur
MP-1 (frontal, a fragment of a vertebra and another fragment of an angular)