Moinho do Carmo, Alenquer (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Carmo windmill

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed C3; also "Arranho Unit", Sobral Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, red claystone

• "gray and rose clays"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. W. Robbins, G. Zbyszewski in 1949

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1951. Découverte d'une riche faune de Reptiles Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique supérieur du Portugal [Discovery of a rich fauna of dinosaurian reptiles in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 233:1125-1127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49218: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.2 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
MG 30485, iliac pubic peduncle (may not be from this site)
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis n. sp." = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis1
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis n. sp." = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis1 Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 camarasaurid
MG 4956; incl. 26 vertebrae (4 cervical, 11 dorsal, 5 sacral, 2 caudal), 24 ribs (2 cervical, 22 dorsal), 2 scapulocoracoids, R forelimb, pelvis, L hind limb