The fossils of Muiscasaurus were found in the Paja Formation, whose sediments are liable familiar the town of Villa de Leyva in Boyacá Department. These remains were found in 2010 in the intermediate of a chalk calculus, understood as the Arcillolitas abigarradas Member, Time from the Barremian to Aptian epochs of the Lower Cretaceous. Although ammonites were found attached to the fossils, their inferior security hinder distinguishing them and thereby found the stratigraphy and correct era of the pattern. The remains found, listed as the holotype specimen CIP-FCG-CBP-74, rake of a partial death's-head and some vertebrae with wife that were found combined with the skull. These continue were entitle in 2015 as the untried genus and kind Muiscasaurus catheti; the genus name being a allusion to the Muisca of central Colombia, with the Latinized Greek vocable saurus, "reptilian". The variety name, catheti, indicate orthogonal and assign to the
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