VENEZUELA
TRUJILLO STATE
CANDELARIA MUNICIPALITY
CEMENT QUARRY (CEMENTOS ANDIONS COMPANY),
LOCATED EAST OF LAKE MARACAIBO
LA AGUADA
MEMBER
LA LUNA FORMATION
CENOMANIAN STAGE
UPPER GALLIC SUBEPOCH
LOWEST GULF EPOCH
LATE EARLY TO EARLY MIDDLE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
INFRACLASS: EURYAPSIDA COLBERT, 1945
SUPERORDER: SAUROPTERYGIA OWEN, 1860
GRANDORDER: EOSAUROPTERYGIA emend RIEPPEL, 1994
ORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
SUBORDER: PLESIOSAURIA OWEN, 1840 NON BLAINVILLE, 1835
INFRAORDER: PLIOSAUROMORPHA NOVA
Superfamily: PLIOSAUROIDEA Seeley, 1874
THALASSOPHONEA BENSON & DRUCKENBILLER, 2013
Family: BRACHAUCHNEIIDAE Williston, 1925
Subfamily: BRACHAUCHENINAE Willston, 1925
Gen. sp indet.
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VENEZUELA
TRUJILLO STATE
10 KM NORTHEAST OF MONAY
CEMENT QUARRY (CEMENTOS ANDIONS COMPANY),
LOCATED EAST OF LAKE MARACAIBO
~ 28 M ABOVE THE BASE OF THE LA AGUADA
MEMBER
LA LUNA FORMATION
CENOMANIAN STAGE
UPPER GALLIC SUBEPOCH
LOWEST GULF EPOCH
LATE EARLY TO EARLY MIDDLE CRETACEOUS
STEM: TETRAPODA GOODRICH, 1930
SUPERCLASS: AMNIOTA HAECKEL, 1866
CLASS: REPTILIA LAURENTI, 1768
SUBCLASS: DIAPSIDA OSBORN, 1904
INFRACLASS: NEODIAPSIDA BENTON, 1985
LEGION: LEPIDOSAUROMORPHA BENTON, 1983
SUBLEGION: LEPIDOSAURIA HAECKEL, 1866 (DUMERIL & BIBRON, 1839)
MAGNORDER: SQUAMATA, OPPEL, 1811
SUPERORDER: SERPENTES LINNAEUS, 1759
*Lunaophis aquaticus