Alfeizerão: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian - Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Portugal
collected 1908
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Omosaurus lennieri
Nopcsa 1911
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3 individuals | |||||||||
MSGP C = MIGM 4921 (cervical, dorsal & caudal vertebrae), MIGM 4922 (cervical vertebrae), MIGM 4923 (dorsal vertebrae), MIGM 4924 (partial R humerus) & MIGM 4971 (partial R femur); plus 1 egg (!) | ||||||||||
= Dacentrurus sp.
Lucas 1902
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Maidment et al. 2008 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Leiria |
Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 9.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 1.5° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 87 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Kimmeridgian - Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 155.70000 - 150.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "? Middle Kimmeridgian to lower Upper Kimmeridgian"; layer C3 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lenticular lignite |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "lignite lens" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1908 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Alfeizerao | ||
Database number: | 49215 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-11 13:02:35 | Last modified: | 2021-08-12 13:35:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-11 13:02:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
45822. | 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] |
Secondary references:
13162 | ETE | M. T. Antunes and O. Mateus. 2003. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:77-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
77624 | F. Costa and O. Mateus. 2019. Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): a new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America. PLoS One 14(11):e0224263:1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
25691 | ETE | P. M. Galton. 1991. Postcranial remains of stegosaurian dinosaur Dacentrurus from Upper Jurassic of France and Portugal. Geologica et Palaeontologica 25:299-327 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
13143 | ETE | 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] |
29301 | ETE | S. C. R. Maidment, D. B. Norman, P. M. Barrett and P. Upchurch. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6(4):367-407 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |