Loma de Monsalve, Boyaca (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Colombia (5.6° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 42.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paja Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Barremian-Aptian?

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Etayo Serna. 1968. Apuntaciones acerca de algunas amonitas interesantes del Hauteriviano y del Barremiano de la region de Villa de Leiva (Boyaca, Colombia, S.A.) [Hauterivian and Barremian ammonites from the Villa de Leiva region (Boyaca, Colombia, South America)]. Boletin de Geologia 24:51-70 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72029: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.05.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Desmatochelys padillai Cadena and Parham 2015 sea turtle
FCG-CBP-75 partially preserved carapace and plastron with a clutch containing at least 48 eggs inside the visceral cavity and 4 isolated eggs
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Crioceratites (Pseudothurmannia) portarum n. sp." = Crioceratites portarum
"Crioceratites (Pseudothurmannia) portarum n. sp." = Crioceratites portarum Etayo-Serna 1968 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
"Buergliceras buerglii n. gen. n. sp." = Psilotissotia (Buergliceras)
"Buergliceras buerglii n. gen. n. sp." = Psilotissotia (Buergliceras) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae