El Penon, near Altagracia de Orituco (Cretaceous of Venezuela)

Where: Guarico, Venezuela (9.9° S, 66.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.5° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Querecual Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• originally assigned to Cenomanian-Turonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected by G. Pardo; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Georges Pardo

Primary reference: E. H. Colbert. 1949. A new Cretaceous plesiosaur from Venezuela. American Museum Novitates 1420:1-22 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99306: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 05.11.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Alzadasaurus tropicus Colbert 1949 elasmosaur