Museo El Fosil, Boyaca Department, Colombia
4.0 (732 reviews) Saturday: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Spent < 1 hour Ranking #9 in Villa de Leyva Speciality Museums
Imagine seeing Fossils that are over 6000 years old
The "Museum Fossil" is a community museum that exhibits in situ the fossil specimen holotype "Kronosaurus BOYACENSIS" described by OLIVER HAMPE 1992, this animal, a PLIOSAUROIDAE Cretaceous period Early, with 115 million years old, was a marine reptile predator of large, thick, short neck, four powerful flippers, short and muscular tail, breathing through lungs and gave birth to calves directly into the water. We also exhibited the holotype "PADILLASAURUS LEIVANENSIS" (Parra et. Al., 2015) A Brachiosauridae, originally from the Cretaceous period Early, with 130 million years old, is a dinosaur of great stature, with over 12 meters high and 17 meters long, unique in its kind. Our museum also exhibits a beautiful head of Kronosaurus as well as an interesting tip from another Kronosaurus and vertebras of this animal, and fragments of limbs and muzzle of that powerful marine reptile ... In our collection we have traces of Ichthyosauria, marine reptile breathing through lungs and gave birth to calves directly into the water, in the form of snuff, big eyes and a powerful flukes, one that animal was a hunter deep water. We also exhibited a considerable amount of Ammonoideas, commonly called "Ammonite", our collection of Ammonite allows us to observe the processes of biological change over time, or what is the same, allows us to observe the evolution, as well as the different types of materials rock that make up the fossils of the region. Our small but important collection of bivalvias, fish, crabs and turtles allow us to observe dynamic different ecological and diverse ecological niches, from benthic animals as some bivalvias, through sea animals open as Ichthyosauria and fish, covering metropolitan animals like PLIOSAUROIDAE, reaching close to the coasts, where animals like ammonites, crabs and turtles dominated the scene. Also, our museum exhibits remains petrified plants Cretaceous period, we have evidence of roots, stems, leaves and seeds of gymnosperm plants. Last...
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, Villa de Leyva, Colombia.
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Monday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday : 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Current local date and time now
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 8:42
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4.0 based on (732 reviews)
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5Brian H 5:00 PM Feb 8, 2023
Wonderful huge in-situ fossil
This small museum has an excellently preserved huge fossil, exposed where it was discovered in the 1970s. Surprisingly good displays give scientific context, plus lots of smaller fossils from the area. Signs in English and Spanish.
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4miayepes 5:00 PM Dec 31, 2019
The community founded this place! La comunidad fundó este sitio!
I like it not only bc they have a guide (in spanish, I don’t know if they have it in english) that explains the history of the museum and the story and context of the pieces, and the big kronosaurius, but also bc it is a place founded and kept by the community. The profits goes to the maintenance of the museum and for the local farmers and their families. Me gustó no solo por su guia, sus explicaciones y exhibición, sino tambien porque fue fundado y es manejado por la comunidad. Las ganancias se reinvierten en el lugar y en la comunidad.
