Also known as Padillasaurus leivaensis type, Villa de Leyva
Where: Boyacá, Colombia (5.6° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 42.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gerhardtia galeatoides ammonoid zone, Paja Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• Middle member of the Paja Formation. Paper says this is "lower Barremian" and "lower upper Barremian"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gypsiferous, nodular, calcareous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: collected by local farmers and donated to the Junta de Acción Comunal Vereda Monquirá (JACVM)
Primary reference: J. L. Carballido, D. Pol, M. L. Parra Ruge, S. Padilla Bernal, M. E. Páramo-Fonseca and F. Etayo-Serna. 2015. A new Early Cretaceous brachiosaurid (Dinosauria, Neosauropoda) from northwestern Gondwana (Villa de Leiva, Colombia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5):e980505:1-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172898: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 28.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Padillasaurus leivaensis n. gen. n. sp.
Padillasaurus leivaensis n. gen. n. sp. Carballido et al. 2015 sauropod JACVM 0001 (a posterior dorsal centrum, the last presacral vertebra, the two anterior-most and the two posterior-most sacral vertebrae, and the first eight caudal vertebrae)
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"Gerhardtia galeatoides" = Pulchellia (Heinzia)
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