Santa Rita (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Torres Vedras

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ALT SHN collection

Primary reference: F. Ortega, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, A. Pérez García, and P. Dantas. 2009. Faunas de répteis do Jurássico Superior de Portugal: sobre las faunas de reptiles del Jurásico Superior de Portugal [Reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: on the reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Paleolusitana 1:43-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108806: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.05.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Selenemys lusitanica n. gen. n. sp.2
Selenemys lusitanica n. gen. n. sp.2 Pérez-García and Ortega 2011 turtle
ALT SHN.066 (holotype)
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.1 Marsh 1878 sauropod
SHN 534, partial skeleton