The first Cretaceosu Ichthyosaur of Colombia

Abstract

An Ichthyosauria fragmentary dentary bone is described. It was collected in the neighborhood of the Quehrada Luní, Municipio de Piedras, Departamento del Tolima, Colombia. The available specimen cannot be satisfactorily identified, since it can be referred either to the family Míxosauridae or to Shastasauridae, although it does not fall into the known stratigraphical range of these families, because the mollusk fauna associated with this specimen points out a Coniacian age. Apparently this is the first record of an ichthyosaur for Colombia.