El Ocal stream, 26 km southwest of Neiva: Late Turonian, Colombia
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Páramo-Fonseca 2011 |
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1 individual |
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| BRV-68 - holotype (Skull and incomplete jaws, atlas, axis, first cervical vertebra, two anterior dorsal vertebrae and fragments of ribs) |
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| Country: | Colombia |
State/province: | Huila |
| Coordinates: |
2.8° North, 75.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.5° North, 43.4° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
| Period: | Cretaceous |
Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian |
10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Turonian |
| Age range of interval: | 93.9 - 89.8 m.y. ago |
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Also known as: | Yaguarasaurus columbianus type |
| Database number: | 122676 |
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion |
Enterer: | P. Mannion, J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen |
Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-01-05 01:23:45 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2012-01-05 01:23:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 73895. | | 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 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
| 39110 | | M. E. Páramo-Fonseca. 2000. Yaguarasaurus columbianus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae), a primitive mosasaur from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Colombia. Historical Biology 14(1-2):121-131 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/F. Aspromonte] |
| 46147 | | M. E. Páramo-Fonseca. 2011. Mosasauroids from Colombia. Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 182(2):103-109 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |