Reptilia - Squamata - Mosasauridae
Full reference: M. E. Páramo. 1994. Posicion sistematica de un reptil marino con base en los restos fosiles encontrados en capas del Cretacico superior en Yaguara (Huila). Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 19(72):63-80
Belongs to Yaguarasaurus according to F. Fanti et al. 2014
See also Driscoll et al. 2019 and Páramo 1994
Sister taxon: Yaguarasaurus regiomontanus
Type specimen: BRV-68, a partial skeleton (Skull and incomplete jaws, atlas, axis, first cervical vertebra, two anterior dorsal vertebrae and fragments of ribs). Its type locality is El Ocal stream, 26 km southwest of Neiva, which is in a Turonian marine horizon in the Villeta Formation of Colombia.
Ecology: aquatic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Colombia (5 collections)
Total: 5 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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