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= Maria Paramo =

María Euridice Páramo-Fonseca (Bogotá, Colombia, 1963) colombian paleontologist and geologist. Paramo is an associate profesor at National University of Colombia in Bogota. She has contributed to the paleontology field in Colombia with the description of several reptiles from the Cretaceus, particularly the mosasaurids Eonanator and Yaguarasaurus.

Biography
Paramo obtained a bachelor's degree in 1991 at the National University of Colombia, with a thesis called Posición sistemática de un reptil marino con base en los restos fósiles encontrados en capas del Cretácico Superior en Yaguará, Huila (Systematic position of a marine reptile based on the fossil records found in Upper Cretaceous layers in Yaguará, Huila), and a Ph.D in 1997 at the University of Poitiers (Université de Poitiers) with her dissertation Les Vertébrés marins du Turonien de la Vallée Supérieure du Magdalena, Colombie, Systématique, Paléoécologie et Paléobiogéographie (The Turonian marine vertebrates of the Upper Magdalena Valley, Colombia, Systematics, Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography). Paramo and the paleontologist Fernando Etayo described the first dinosaur fossil found in Colombia, Padillasaurus leivaensis from the Paja Formation close to Villa de Leyva. Paramo also described the mosasaurid Eonatator coellensis from Coello, Tolima, the pliosaurid Stenorhynchosaurus munozi, the icthyosaur Platypterigius sachicarum from the Paja Formation, the mosasaurid Yaguarasaurus columbianus from the La Frontera Formation, Huila department, the ray-finned fish Bachea huilensis, and Pleistocene gomphotherids close to Cartagena.

Páramo has published her work in Spanish, French and English.

Publications
Paramo publications include:
 * Cortés, D., & Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. (2018). Restos apendiculares de un ictiosaurio oftalmosáurido del Barremiano inferior de Villa de Leiva, Colombia. Boletín de Geología, 40(1), 15-30.
 * Páramo-Fonseca, M. E., Gómez-Pérez, M., Noé, L. F., & Etayo-Serna, F. (2016). Stenorhynchosaurus munozi, gen. et sp. nov. a new pliosaurid from the Upper Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Villa de Leiva, Colombia, South America. Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, 40(154), 84-103.
 * Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. "Eonatator coellensis nov. sp.(Squamata: Mosasauridae), a new species from the Upper Cretaceous of Colombia." Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales 37.145 (2013): 499-518.
 * Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. (2012). Mosasauroids from Colombia. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 183(2), 103-109.
 * Cadena, E. R., Jaramillo, C. M., & Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. (2007). The first Late Pleistocene record of Kinosternon (Cryptodira: Kinosternidae) turtles for Northern South America, Pubenza Locality, Colombia. South American Journal of Herpetology, 2(3), 201-205.
 * Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. (2001). Los peces de la familia Pachyrhizodontidae (Teleostei) del Turoniano del Valle Superior del Magdalena. Boletín Geológico, 39(1-3), 51-83.
 * Páramo‐Fonseca, M. E. (2000). Yaguarasaurus columbianus (Reptilia, Mosasauridae), a primitive mosasaur from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Colombia. Historical Biology, 14(1-2), 121-131.
 * Paramo, M. E. (1997). Platypterygius sachicarum (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) nueva especie del Cretácico de Colombia. Revista Ingeominas, 6, 1-12.
 * Páramo-Fonseca, M. E. "Bachea huilensis nov. gen. nov. sp. the first Tselfatioidei (Teleostei) from Colombia." Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences Series IIA Earth and Planetary Science 325.2 (1997): 147-150.