Yaguarasaurus is an extinct genus of mosasauroid from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) period of Colombia, South America.
The remains discovered (an articulated skull, some vertebrae and ribs) were defined as a new genus and species of mosasaurid, Yaguarasaurus columbianus, by the Colombian paleontologist María Páramo, former director of the Museo de Geología José Royo y Gómez of INGEOMINAS in Bogotá.
[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).
[4] 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.
Tethysaurus nopscai Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus Yaguarasaurus columbianus Russellosaurus coheni Romeosaurus fumanensis Angolasaurus bocagei Selmasaurus johnsoni Ectenosaurus clidastoides Plesioplatecarpus planiforms Latoplatecarpus willistoni Platecarpus tympanticus Plioplatecarpus spp.