Coello (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Also known as Quebrada El Cajón

Where: Colombia (4.6° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 55.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nivel de Lutitas y Arenas Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Nivel de Lutitas y Arenas

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected in 2004-2005

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142086: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 04.04.2013, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Eonatator coellensis n. sp. Páramo-Fonseca 2013 mosasaur
RC090805 (ING), near-complete articulated skeleton