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Yaguarasaurus columbianus
Taxonomy
Yaguarasaurus columbianus was named by Páramo (1994). Its type specimen is BRV-68, a partial skeleton (Skull and incomplete jaws, atlas, axis, first cervical vertebra, two anterior dorsal vertebrae and fragments of ribs), and it is a 3D body fossil. 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. It is the type species of Yaguarasaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1994 | Yaguarasaurus columbianus Páramo p. 65 |
| 2014 | Yaguarasaurus columbianus Fanti et al. |
| 2019 | Yaguarasaurus columbianus Driscoll et al. |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Yaguarasaurus columbianus Páramo 1994
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade | |||||
| References: Carroll 1988, Gervais 1852, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Turonian to the top of the Early/Lower Coniacian or 93.50000 to 85.80000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Turonian | Colombia (Huila) | Yaguarasaurus columbianus (type locality: 122676 122680 122682 122683) | |
| Early/Lower Coniacian | Colombia (Santander) | Yaguarasaurus columbianus (142085) |