Fernando Etayo


Fernando Etayo Serna is a Colombian paleontologist and geologist. His contributions on the paleontology in Colombia has been mainly on the descriptions of ammonites and Etayo has helped describing many fossiliferous :Category:Geologic formations of Colombia|geologic formations of Colombia. Etayo obtained his MSc. 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.

Biography

In 1962, Etayo Serna published his first work about the species Codakia orbicularis and Codakia orbiculata. He has defined many geologic formations of Colombia in the 1960s and 1970s.
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. His work has been focused on the descriptions of the various ammonites found in the same formation. He also co-authored the 2016 publication about Stenorhynchosaurus munozi, found in the same formation.
Etayo has published in Spanish and English. In 1975, the year Etayo received his PhD degree, he was awarded the Louderbach Memorial Award in Stratigraphy from the University of California, Berkeley.
The ungulate Etayoa bacatensis, found in the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene Bogotá Formation south of Bogotá, has been named in honour of Etayo.

Formations described by Etayo

Age:Category:Geologic formations of Colombia|FormationType localityYearNotes
Early MaastrichtianLa Luna FormationMachiques1986
Late CampanianLa Luna FormationMachiques1986
CampanianOlini GroupPiedras1969
SantonianOlini GroupPiedras1969
SantonianConejo FormationToca1969
TuronianConejo FormationToca1969
TuronianLa Frontera FormationAlbán1969
Turonian
Cenomanian		Capacho FormationChiscas1985
Turonian
Cenomanian		Chipaque FormationChipaque1964
Turonian
Cenomanian		Simijaca FormationSimijaca1969
CenomanianChuruvita FormationSáchica-Samacá1968
Early CenomanianHiló FormationApulo-Anapoima1969
Late AlbianHiló FormationApulo-Anapoima1969
CenomanianChiquinquirá SandstoneChiquinquirá1968
Mid AptianChiquinquirá SandstoneChiquinquirá1968
Early ConiacianGüagüaquí GroupGüagüaquí River1979
Mid AlbianGüagüaquí GroupGüagüaquí River1979
Early-Mid AlbianPuerto Romero FormationPuerto Boyacá1979
Early AlbianCapotes FormationBituima-Guayabal1969
Early AlbianLa Naveta FormationBogotá River1969
Early Albian
Late Aptian		Tibú-Mercedes FormationPamplona1986
Early Albian
Late Aptian		Tablazo FormationSutamarchán1968
Late AptianSocotá FormationApulo1969
Early AptianTrincheras FormationApulo1969
Late AptianPaja FormationVilla de Leyva1968
Late HauterivianPaja FormationVilla de Leyva1968
Early HauterivianRitoque FormationVilla de Leyva1968
ValanginianRosablanca FormationMesa de Los Santos1968
Early ValanginianCumbre FormationArcabuco-Moniquirá1969
BerriasianArcabuco FormationArcabuco1985
TithonianArcabuco FormationArcabuco1985

Works

This list is a selection.

Books

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