Fernando Etayo

Fernando Etayo Serna is a Colombian paleontologist and geologist.

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.

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.

[4][5] His work has been focused on the descriptions of the various ammonites found in the same formation.

[1] The ungulate Etayoa bacatensis, found in the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Bogotá Formation south of Bogotá, has been named in honour of Etayo.

The first publication by Etayo was about Codakia orbicularis
Oyster fossils from the Chipaque Formation
Heinzia , known from the Trincheras Fm.
Padillasaurus leivaensis from the Paja Fm.
Etayo has contributed to the understanding of ammonites of Colombia, seen here close to Villa de Leyva