Where: Centro, Portugal (39.4° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lourinhã Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• Previously assigned to Bombarral Formation. Lourinhã Fm is considered late Kimmeridgian-late Tithonian and it incorporates the Alcobaça Fm (Kimmeridgian) and the Bombarral Fm (also known as Grés Superiores; late Tithonian-early Berrisian). Taylor et al. 2013 suggested the Lourinhã Fm be subdivided into members, but Mateus et al. 2017 proposed a revised stratiraphy of the Luisitanian Basin. The Alcobaça Formation is Late Kimmeridigan and overlain by the Lourinha Formation. The Lourinhã Formation is made up of the Praia da Amoreira and Porto Novo (late Kimmeridgian) members, Praia Azul member (latest Kimmeridgian–earliest Tithonian) and the Assenta member (late Tithonian-earliest Berrisian). The Lourinha Formation is overlain by the Porto da Calada Formation (Berrisian).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, F. Escaso, E. Malafaia, C. M. Chaves, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, N. Pimentel, B. C. Silva and F. Ortega. 2017. Upper Jurassic sauropod record in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): geographical and lithostratigraphical distribution. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):27A:1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194480: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 20.06.2018, edited by Matthew Carrano

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