Loma La Cabrera, WNW Villa de Leyva, Columbia (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Boyaca, Colombia (5.6° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 42.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paja Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: O. Hampe. 2005. Considerations on a Brachauchenius skeleton (Pliosauroidea)from the lower Paja Formation (late Barremian) of Villa de Leyva area (Colombia). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 8:37-51 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55502: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 28.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Brachauchenius sp. Williston 1903 plesiosaur
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
"Heinzia sp." = Pulchellia (Heinzia)
"Heinzia sp." = Pulchellia (Heinzia) ammonite