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Yaguarasaurus, the Glossary

Yaguarasaurus is an extinct genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) period of Colombia, South America.^[1]

39 relations: Angolasaurus, Apomorphy and synapomorphy, Bogotá, Colombia, Colombian Geological Survey, Cretaceous, Cretaceous Research, Ectenosaurus, Extinction, Florentino Ameghino, Fossilworks, Gavialimimus, Genus, Goronyosaurus, Historical Biology, Huila Department, La Frontera Formation, Late Cretaceous, Latoplatecarpus, List of mosasaur genera, María Páramo, Mosasaur, Neurocranium, Pannoniasaurus, Platecarpus, Plesioplatecarpus, Plioplatecarpinae, Plioplatecarpus, Romeosaurus, Russellosaurus, Selmasaurus, South America, Tethysaurinae, Tethysaurus, Turonian, Tylosaurinae, Villeta Group, Yaguarasaurinae, Yaguará.
Late Cretaceous reptiles of South America
Mosasaurs of South America
Russellosaurins
Taxa named by María Páramo

Angolasaurus

Angolasaurus ("Angola lizard") is an extinct genus of mosasaur. Yaguarasaurus and Angolasaurus are mosasaurs of South America and Russellosaurins.

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Apomorphy and synapomorphy

In phylogenetics, an apomorphy (or derived trait) is a novel character or character state that has evolved from its ancestral form (or plesiomorphy).

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Bogotá (also), officially Bogotá, Distrito Capital, abbreviated Bogotá, D.C., and formerly known as Santa Fe de Bogotá during the Spanish Colonial period and between 1991 and 2000, is the capital and largest city of Colombia, and one of the largest cities in the world.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Colombian Geological Survey

The Colombian Geological Survey (CGS) (Servicio Geológico Colombiano; formerly known as INGEOMINAS) is a scientific agency of the Colombian government in charge of contributing to the socioeconomic development of the nation through research in basic and applied geosciences of the subsoil, the potential of its resources, evaluating and monitoring threats of geological origin, managing the geoscientific knowledge of the nation, and studying the nuclear and radioactive elements in Colombia.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).

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Cretaceous Research

Cretaceous Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier.

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Ectenosaurus

Ectenosaurus is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Florentino Ameghino

Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino; September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century.

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Fossilworks

Fossilworks is a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a large relational database assembled by hundreds of paleontologists from around the world.

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Gavialimimus

Gavialimimus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur from the Maastrichtian of Morocco.

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Goronyosaurus

Goronyosaurus is an extinct genus of marine lizard belonging to the mosasaur family.

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Historical Biology

Historical Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of paleobiology.

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Huila Department

Huila is one of the departments of Colombia.

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La Frontera Formation

The La Frontera Formation (Formación La Frontera, K2F, Ksf) is a geological formation, part of the Villeta Group, of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense and neighbouring areas of the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Yaguarasaurus and La Frontera Formation are Cretaceous Colombia.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Latoplatecarpus

Latoplatecarpus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur known from the Late Cretaceous (early middle Campanian stage) of the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western Interior Basin of North America.

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List of mosasaur genera

This list of mosasaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the family Mosasauridae or the parent clade Mosasauroidea, excluding purely vernacular terms.

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María Páramo

María Euridice Páramo Fonseca (born 1953 in Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian paleontologist and geologist. Yaguarasaurus and María Páramo are taxa named by María Páramo.

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Mosasaur

Mosasaurs (from Latin Mosa meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek σαύρος sauros meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous.

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Neurocranium

In human anatomy, the neurocranium, also known as the braincase, brainpan, or brain-pan, is the upper and back part of the skull, which forms a protective case around the brain.

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Pannoniasaurus

Pannoniasaurus is an extinct genus of tethysaurine mosasauroid known from the Late Cretaceous Csehbánya Formation and Ajka Coal Formation (Santonian stage) of Hungary. Yaguarasaurus and Pannoniasaurus are Russellosaurins.

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Platecarpus

Platecarpus ("flat wrist") is an extinct genus of aquatic lizards belonging to the mosasaur family, living around 84–81 million years ago during the middle Santonian to early Campanian, of the Late Cretaceous period. Yaguarasaurus and Platecarpus are Russellosaurins.

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Plesioplatecarpus

Plesioplatecarpus is an extinct genus of plioplatecarpine mosasaur known from the Late Cretaceous (middle Coniacian to middle Santonian stage) of the northern Gulf of Mexico and the Western Interior Basin of North America. Yaguarasaurus and Plesioplatecarpus are Russellosaurins.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaguarasaurus

Also known as Yaguarasaurus columbianus.

Yaguarasaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Late Cretaceous reptiles of South America

Mosasaurs of South America

Russellosaurins

Taxa named by María Páramo

References