Genus: Laquintasaura BARRETT, BUTLER, MUNDIL, SCHEYER, IRIMIS, and SCANCHEZ-VILLAGRA,
2014
Etymology: Laquinta-' after the type horizon, and Greek, saura, "lizard."
= Genus: Nova SANCHEZ-VILLAGRA & CLARK, 1994
Species:
venezuelae BARRETT,
BUTLER, MUNDIL, SCHEYER, IRIMIS, and SCANCHEZ-VILLAGRA, 2014
Etymology: In reference to the country and people of Venezuela.
Holotype: MBLUZ P.1396
Locality: Road-cut between the towns of La Grita and Seboruco, Tachira State, Venezula.
Horizon: La Quinta Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Hettangian Stage, Lower Lias Epoch, Early Jurassic.
Material: An isolated maxillary or dentary tooth.
Paraytpes:
MBLUZ P.5017: Distal part of left femur.
MBLUZ P.5018: Proximal part of left ischium.
MBLUZ P.5005: A left astragalocalcaneum.
Referred material: :
Numbers not given: Hundreds of individual elements (some isolated, some in dense accumulations), including teeth, cranial elements (premaxilla, maxilla, jugals, parietals, frontal, postfrontal, exoccipital/opisthotic, pterygoid, quadrates), cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal vertebrae, ribs, scapulae, pelvic girdle elements, and hindlimb material: no forelimb matera is known and pedal materal is rare.
= Ornithischia gen sp indet. BARRETT, BUTLER, NOVAS, MOORE-FAY, MOODY, CLAKR & SANCHEZ-VILLAGRA, 2008
Locality: Across the Rio La Grita, on the right bank, Western Venezuela.
Horizon: La Quinta Formation.
Biostratigraphy:
Age: Early or Middle Jurassic.
Material:
MBLUZ P962, P1401: Premaxillary teeth.
MBLUZ P1062, P1072, P1085, P1098, P1395-P1398, P1400: Maxillary/dentary teeth.
MBLUZ P1094: 2 maxillary/dentary teeth.
MBLUZ P1095: Distal right tibia.
MBLUZ P1337: Premaxillary (?) tooth.
MBLUZ P1434: Premaxillary tooth, maxillary/dentary tooth.
Note: Also Archosauria indet, cervical centrum, and reptilia indet (distal femur, proximal tibia, fibula, ischium (?), chevron and ribs.
MBULZ P1555(1): Premaxillary tooth.
Note: Also reptilia indet (Ilium (?), neural arch and rib fragments.
Number: Not given: 2 maxillary/dentary teeth.
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