Yaguarasaurus

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Yaguarasaurus
Temporal range:
Ma
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Skull and first cervical vertebrae of Yaguarasaurus. Geological Museum José Royo y Gómez, Bogotá
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Clade: †Mosasauria
Superfamily: †Mosasauroidea
Family: †Mosasauridae
Clade: †Russellosaurina
Subfamily: †Yaguarasaurinae
Genus: †Yaguarasaurus
Páramo 1994
Type species
†Yaguarasaurus columbianus
Páramo 1994
Other species[1]
  • †Y. regiomontanus Rivera-Sylva et al., 2023

Yaguarasaurus is an

INGEOMINAS in Bogotá. The first fossils remains of this animal suggested a cranial length of 47 centimetres (19 in) and a total length of 5 metres (16 ft); an additional skull that measures 87 centimetres (34 in) long implies a larger size.[2]

This reptile is a member of the family of marine lizards

Mosasauridae characteristic of Middle and Upper Cretaceous, with global distribution, but in South America known only through isolated remains (Price, 1957, Pierce and Welles, 1959 ; Bonaparte, 1978;[3] Ameghino, 1918). This mosasaur discovered in Yaguará, was at the moment of discovery the most complete material known in South America.[4]

Holotype skull of Y. regiomontanus at the Museo del Desierto, Saltillo, Coahuila

Etymology

The remains were found in a limestone bed (Upper Turonian) of the La Frontera Formation, member of the Villeta Group, near Yaguará, Huila, in a site called Cueva Rica.[5] Its name means "Yaguará lizard of Colombia".

Phylogeny

Paleogeography of Northern South America, 90 Ma
by Ron Blakey

The following cladograms illustrate the phylogenetic analyses of two competing hypotheses on the classification of Yaguarasaurus. Topology A represents the traditional view of the genus belonging to the subfamily

braincase.[7]

In the second scenario, the two species of Yaguarasaurus are paraphyletic with respect to more derived plioplatecarpines, with Y. regiomontanus lying further up the tree.

Topology A
Yaguarasaurine per Palci et al. (2013)
Russellosaurina
Topology B
Basal plioplatecarpine per Rivera-Sylva et al. (2023)
Plioplatecarpinae


See also
  • List of mosasaurs

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104694
    .
  2. S2CID 129466921
    . Retrieved 2017-03-30.
  3. ^ Bonaparte, J. F. (1978). El Mesozoico de América del Sur y sus Tetrápodos. Vol. 26. Ministerio de Cultura y Educación Fundación Miguel Lillo, San Miguel de Tucumán, Opera Lilloana. pp. 1–596.
  4. ^ Páramo, M.E. (1994). "Posición sistemática de un reptil marino con base en los restos fósiles encontrados en capas del Cretácico Superior en Yaguará (Huila)". Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. 19 (72): 63–80.
  5. ^ Yaguarasaurus columbianus at Fossilworks.org
  6. S2CID 86646993
    .
  7. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105621
    – via Elsevier Science Direct.

External links
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