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 | |
Brachauchenius sp. Williston 1903 plesiosaur | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Heinzia sp." = Pulchellia (Heinzia)
"Heinzia sp." = Pulchellia (Heinzia) ammonite |