María Páramo

[1] She contributed to paleontology in Colombia in the fields of describing various Cretaceous reptiles, most notably the mosasaurs Eonatator and Yaguarasaurus, the ichthyosaur Kyhytysuka, and the plesiosaurs Leivanectes and Stenorhynchosaurus.

María Páramo lectures and conducts research in the Department of Geosciences[3] at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá since 2006.

[3] Páramo, together with fellow paleontologist Fernando Etayo, collaborated in describing the first dinosaur fossil found in Colombia, Padillasaurus leivaensis from the Paja Formation, close to Villa de Leyva, Boyacá.

[5] Other species described by Páramo are the mosasaur Eonatator coellensis from Coello, Tolima,[6] the pliosaur Stenorhynchosaurus munozi,[7] and ichthyosaur Platypterigius sachicarum (now Kyhytysuka sachicarum) from the Paja Formation,[8] Platypterygius appendicular remains from Northern tip of South America, fossil fish species Bachea huilensis from the Villeta Group,[9] and Gomphotheres from Pleistocene beds close to Cartagena.

Along with Fonseca, in 2000, she collected the tooth of mosasaur genus found in layers of the Turoniense of the Villeta Formation from "Mosasauroids from Colombia.