Quarry near Tapias (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Boyaca, Colombia (5.5° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° S, 50.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: San Rafael Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas, Villa de Leyva, Colombia

Primary reference: O. Vernygora, A. M. Murray, J. L. Mary, L. P. Ruge, and M. E. P. Fonseca. 2018. A new Cretaceous dercetid fish (Neoteleostei: Aulopiformes) from the Turonian of Colombia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16(12):1057-1071 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 133323: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 09.09.2012, edited by Josh Mordaunt

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Candelarhynchus padillai n. gen. n. sp.
Candelarhynchus padillai n. gen. n. sp. Vernygora et al. 2018
Holotype CIP-00097