El Ocal stream, 26 km southwest of Neiva: Late/Upper Turonian, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Mosasauridae indet.
Gervais 1852
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Páramo-Fonseca 2011 | |||||||||
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Yaguarasaurus columbianus n. gen., n. sp.
Páramo 1994
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1 individual | |||||||||
| BRV-68 - holotype (Skull and incomplete jaws, atlas, axis, first cervical vertebra, two anterior dorsal vertebrae and fragments of ribs) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Huila |
| Coordinates: | 2.8° North, 75.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.0° South, 52.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Villeta | Member: | La Frontera |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Yaguarasaurus columbianus type | ||
| Database number: | 122676 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-05 01:23:45 | Last modified: | 2020-09-25 10:24:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-01-05 01:23:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 73895. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 39110 | 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] | |
| 46147 | M. E. Páramo-Fonseca. 2011. Mosasauroids from Colombia. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 182(2):103-109 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |