Loma La Cabrera, WNW Villa de Leyva, Columbia: Late/Upper Barremian, Colombia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Pulchelliidae
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Heinzia sp.
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| spelled with current rank as Pulchellia (Heinzia) | |||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
- Pliosauridae
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Brachauchenius sp.
Williston 1903
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1 individual | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Colombia | State/province: | Boyaca |
| Coordinates: | 5.6° North, 73.6° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.8° North, 42.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Paja |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 55502 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-28 04:27:56 | Last modified: | 2005-10-28 07:27:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-10-28 04:27:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14975. | O. Hampe. 2005. Considerations on a Brachauchenius skeleton (Pliosauroidea)from the lower Paja Formation (late Barremian) of Villa de Leyva area (Colombia). Mitteilungen des Museums für Naturkunde Berlin, Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 8:37-51 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] |