Porto de Mos (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Porto de Mós, Porto de Moz, Porto-de-Moz, Porto do Mos

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.6° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Alcobaça Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "upper Upper Kimmeridgian to lower Lower Tithonian" in Galton 1991

•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).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Choffat, G. Zybyszewski in the 1880s, 1950s

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1897. Notes sur les Reptiles fossiles (1) [Notes on fossil reptiles (1)]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 25:864-875 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 75968: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Astrodon pusillus Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 dinosaur
metacarpal; MGSP I, sacral rib
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Omosaurus lennieri Nopcsa 1911 ornithischian
sacral centra