Vereda Monquirá, ca. 5 km WNW of Villa de Leyva (Cretaceous of Colombia)

Where: Boyacá, Colombia (5.7° N, 73.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 43.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paja Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• Upper Aptian part of Paja Formation

Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, ferruginous carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bogota University in 1977

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: O. Hampe. 1992. Ein großwüchsiger Pliosauride (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) aus der Unterkreide (oberes Aptium) von Kolumbien. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 145:1-25 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127411: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 12.05.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Kronosaurus boyacensis n. gen. n. sp.
Kronosaurus boyacensis n. gen. n. sp. Hampe 1992 plesiosaur
holotype skeleton, A.C.A.C., INGEOMINAS