Vale de Pombas (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Vale Pombas

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• top of stratum (= Amoreira–Porto Novo Member of Lourinha Formation)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by O. Mateus in 1996, 2000, 2002

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Escaso, F. Ortega, P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, B. Silva and J. L. Sanz. 2008. Estudio preliminar del material de estegosaurio de Vale Pombas (Portugal): nueva evidencia de Stegosaurus en el Jurásico Superior del suroeste europeo [Preliminary study of the stegosaur material from Vale Pombas (Portugal): new evidence of Stegosaurus in the Upper Jurassic of southwest Europe]. In J I Ruiz-Omeñaca, L Piñuela and J C García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 107-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 91397: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 17.09.2009, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus sp.1 Marsh 1877 ornithischian
hind limb
 Saurischia -
Zby atlanticus n. gen. n. sp.2
Zby atlanticus n. gen. n. sp.2 Mateus et al. 2014 sauropod
ML 368, associated partial skeleton comprising a complete tooth with root, a fragment of cervical neural arch, an anterior chevron, and a right pectoral girdle and forelimb consisting of a distally incomplete scapula, coracoid, humerus, radius, ulna, metacarpals I, III, and IV, and manual phalanges I-1, I-2, and II(?)-1
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.2 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
indeterminate fragments
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
? Pleurosternidae indet.2 Cope 1868 turtle
Possible pleurosternid chelonian carapace fragments
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes -
cf. Lepidotes sp.2 Agassiz 1832 gar
Two scales