Alcobaça (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.5° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• orig. Sobral Mb. of Farta Pao Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski in the 1940s

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49247: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Sauropoda -
Sauropoda indet. sauropod
MG collections (middle caudal vertebra)
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 camarasaurid
caudal vertebra