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Sachicasaurus
''Sachicasaurus'' is an extinct genus of brachauchenine pliosaurid known from the Barremian of the Paja Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Eastern Ranges of the Andes. The type species is ''S. vitae''. Etymology The genus name ''Sachicasaurus'' refers to Sáchica, the village where the fossil was found, and ''saurus'', meaning "lizard" in Greek.Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.225 The species epithet ''vitae'', meaning "life" in Latin, was chosen because of the life in Sáchica the fossil find has sparked.Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.226 Description The holotype specimen, MP111209-1, is known from a near complete skull, and postcranial elements including a complete hindlimb and various vertebrae. Diagnostic features include a very short mandibular symphysis, reduced number of mandibular teeth (17 to 18 versus 25 to 40 in other pliosaurids),Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.232 slender teeth, among other features. The specimen has an estimated le ...
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Sachicasaurus Scale
''Sachicasaurus'' is an extinct genus of brachauchenine pliosaurid known from the Barremian of the Paja Formation, Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Colombian Eastern Ranges of the Andes. The type species is ''S. vitae''. Etymology The genus name ''Sachicasaurus'' refers to Sáchica, the village where the fossil was found, and ''saurus'', meaning "lizard" in Greek.Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.225 The species epithet ''vitae'', meaning "life" in Latin, was chosen because of the life in Sáchica the fossil find has sparked.Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.226 Description The holotype specimen, MP111209-1, is known from a near complete skull, and postcranial elements including a complete hindlimb and various vertebrae. Diagnostic features include a very short mandibular symphysis, reduced number of mandibular teeth (17 to 18 versus 25 to 40 in other pliosaurids),Páramo Fonseca ''et al.'', 2018, p.232 slender teeth, among other features. The specimen has an estimated le ...
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Monquirasaurus
''Monquirasaurus'' is a monotypic genus of giant pliosaurid from the Cretaceous Paja Formation in Colombia. It contains a single species, ''M. boyacensis'', previously known as ''Kronosaurus boyacensis''. History and naming The holotype and only known specimen of ''Monquirasaurus'' is a long (as preserved), substantially complete and articuled skeleton of a young adult animal discovered in 1977 by Samuel Vargas, Enrique Zubieta and German Zubieta on the lands of Tito Hurtado. Excavations were conducted by geologists, archaeologists and palaeontologists from the Instituto Colombiano de Geología y Minería (now Servicio Geológico Colombiano), the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Locally the specimen soon became known as "El Fósil", before being formally described as ''Kronosaurus boyacensis'' by Hampe in 1992 after being informally attributed to ''Kronosaurus'' in the years prior. This description however was conducte ...
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Callawayasaurus
''Callawayasaurus'' is a genus of plesiosaur from the family Elasmosauridae. When the holotype was first described by Samuel Paul Welles in 1962, it was described as ''Alzadasaurus colombiensis'' before being moved into its current genus by Kenneth Carpenter in 1999.Carpenter, K. 1999. "Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior". ''Paludicola'' 2(2):148-173. Etymology ''Callawayasaurus'' is named in honor of the paleontologist Jack M. Callaway, editor of ''Ancient Marine Reptiles'' who, as Carpenter put it, "in his brief career as a vertebrate paleontologist, did much to improve our understanding of marine reptiles." The familiar suffix, ''-saurus'' comes from the Greek ' (), meaning "lizard" or "reptile." Description ''Callawayasaurus'' was a large plesiosaur, with a skull length of , body length of and body mass of . The nares of ''Callawayasaurus'' are elongated and positioned over the maxilla, which has 3-5 teeth. The neck con ...
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Early Cretaceous Reptiles Of South America
Early may refer to: History * The beginning or oldest part of a defined historical period, as opposed to middle or late periods, e.g.: ** Early Christianity ** Early modern Europe Places in the United States * Early, Iowa * Early, Texas * Early Branch, a stream in Missouri * Early County, Georgia Other uses * ''Early'' (Scritti Politti album), 2005 * ''Early'' (A Certain Ratio album), 2002 * Early (name) * Early effect, an effect in transistor physics * Early Records, a record label * the early part of the morning See also * Earley (other) Earley is a town in England. Earley may also refer to: * Earley (surname), a list of people with the surname Earley * Earley (given name), a variant of the given name Earlene * Earley Lake, a lake in Minnesota *Earley parser, an algorithm *Earley ...
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Pliosaurids
Pliosauridae is a family of plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the Latest Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous (Rhaetian to Turonian stages) of Australia, Europe, North America and South America. The family is more inclusive than the archetypal short-necked large headed species that are placed in the subclade Thalassophonea, with basal forms resembling other plesiosaurs with long necks. They became extinct during the early Late Cretaceous and were subsequently replaced by the mosasaurs. It was formally named by Harry G. Seeley in 1874. Relationships Pliosauridae is a stem-based taxon defined in 2010 (and in earlier studies in a similar manner) as "all taxa more closely related to ''Pliosaurus brachydeirus'' than to '' Leptocleidus superstes'', '' Polycotylus latipinnis'' or ''Meyerasaurus victor''". The family Brachauchenidae has been proposed to include pliosauroids which have very short necks and may include ''Brachauchenius'' and ''Kronosaurus''. However, modern cladistic ...
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Fernando Etayo
Fernando Etayo Serna is a Colombian paleontologist and geologist. His contributions on the paleontology in Colombia has been mainly on the descriptions of ammonites and Etayo has helped describing many fossiliferous geologic formations of Colombia. Etayo obtained his MSc. degree in geology and geophysics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1963, and his PhD in paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975. Biography In 1962, Etayo Serna published his first work about the species '' Codakia orbicularis'' and '' Codakia orbiculata''. He has defined many geologic formations of Colombia in the 1960s and 1970s. Etayo, together with fellow paleontologist María Páramo, collaborated in describing the first dinosaur fossil found in Colombia, '' Padillasaurus'' from the Paja Formation, close to Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.Carballido et al., 2015
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Cretaceous Research
''Cretaceous Research'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. The journal focuses on topics dealing with the Cretaceous period and the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary. Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Web of Science. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a 2020 impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as i ... of 2.176. References External links * Elsevier academic journals Paleontology journals Publications established in 1980 English-language journals Bimonthly journals {{Cretaceous-stub ...
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Zulma Brandoni De Gasparini
Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini (born 15 May 1944) is an Argentinian paleontologist and zoologist. She is known for discovering the fossils of the dinosaur ''Gasparinisaura'', which was named after her. Work Born in the city of La Plata, Argentina on 15 May 1944, Brandoni de Gasparini graduated in zoology from the National University of La Plata in 1966 and obtained her PhD in Natural Sciences in 1973. Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini was internationally recognized in the nineties for leading the team that discovered the Gasparinisaura. She is a recognized expert in Mesozoic reptilians of South America. In 1972, she started her scientific career at the CONICET, in which was promoted in 2003 to the grade of ''Superior Researcher''. She is today professor in Paleontology of Vertebrates in the National University of La Plata. Honours Brandoni de Gasparini has been awarded, among others recognitions, the Prize "Bernardo Houssay" of the CONICET (1987), the Prize to the Merit of ...
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Palaeontographica
This is a list of academic journals, monographic series, and other serials published by E. Schweizerbart. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P Q R S T U V W Z {{columns-list, colwidth=30em, *''Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften'' *''Zeitschrift für Angewandte Geologie'' *''Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie'' **'' Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplement Volumes'' **'' Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie, Supplementary Issues'' *''Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie'' **''Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I'' **''Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil II'' *''Ziegler Catalogue of Conodonts'' *''Zoologica'' External linksSerials list@ schweizerbart.de * E. Schweizerbart E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Schweizerbart Science Publishers) is a Stuttgart-based scholarly publisher established in 1826 by Wilhelm Emanuel Schweizerbart. The company and its affiliate Bornt ...
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Edwin Cadena
The name Edwin means "rich friend". It comes from the Old English elements "ead" (rich, blessed) and "ƿine" (friend). The original Anglo-Saxon form is Eadƿine, which is also found for Anglo-Saxon figures. People * Edwin of Northumbria (died 632 or 633), King of Northumbria and Christian saint * Edwin (son of Edward the Elder) (died 933) * Eadwine of Sussex (died 982), King of Sussex * Eadwine of Abingdon (died 990), Abbot of Abingdon * Edwin, Earl of Mercia (died 1071), brother-in-law of Harold Godwinson (Harold II) *Edwin (director) (born 1978), Indonesian filmmaker * Edwin (musician) (born 1968), Canadian musician * Edwin Abeygunasekera, Sri Lankan Sinhala politician, member of the 1st and 2nd State Council of Ceylon * Edwin Ariyadasa (1922-2021), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist * Edwin Austin Abbey (1852–1911) British artist * Edwin Eugene Aldrin (born 1930), although he changed it to Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut * Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890–1954), American inve ...
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Earth Sciences Research Journal
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. While large volumes of water can be found throughout the Solar System, only Earth sustains liquid surface water. About 71% of Earth's surface is made up of the ocean, dwarfing Earth's polar ice, lakes, and rivers. The remaining 29% of Earth's surface is land, consisting of continents and islands. Earth's surface layer is formed of several slowly moving tectonic plates, which interact to produce mountain ranges, volcanoes, and earthquakes. Earth's liquid outer core generates the magnetic field that shapes the magnetosphere of the Earth, deflecting destructive solar winds. The atmosphere of the Earth consists mostly of nitrogen and oxygen. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere like carbon dioxide (CO2) trap a part of the energy from the Sun close to the surface. Water vapor is widely present in the atmosphere and forms clouds that cover most of the planet. More solar energy is rec ...
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