Acostasaurus
Name:
Acostasaurus
(Acosta's lizard).
Phonetic: Ah-kos-tah-sor-us.
Named By: M. Gomez-Perez & L. E.
Noe - 2017.
Classification: Chordata, Reptilia,
Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae.
Species: A. pavachoquensis
(type).
Diet: Carnivore/Piscivore.
Size: Holotype skull about 68-70 centimetres long.
Body length uncertain but roughly estimated at about 4 meters long for
holotype indivdual.
Known locations: Colombia - Paja Formation.
Time period: Barremian of the Cretaceous.
Fossil representation: Skull and partial post
cranial remains.
Acostasaurus
is a genus of pliosaur
that lived during the early Cretaceous period.
Acostasaurus was a small to middle sized pliosaur
that seems to have
differed from brachauchenisine pliosaur that were otherwise common at
the time and location. This could suggest that Acostasaurus
had a
different lifestyle/feeding preference to other larger pliosaurs.
Further reading
- Cranial anatomy of a new pliosaurid Acostasaurus
pavachoquensis
from the Lower Cretaceous of Colombia, South America.
Palaeontographica Abteilung A 310(1-2):5-42. - M.
Gomez-Perez & L. E. Noe - 2017.
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