Pedras Muitas, Baléal: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Portugal
collected by H. d. Costa Cabaço, G. Zbyszewski, O. de Veiga Ferreira 1942–1943, 1952
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Omosaurus armatus
Marsh 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
MSGP A = MIGM 4846 (anterior caudal vertebra), MIGM 4851 (metacarpal), MIGM 4929 (partial ilio-sacral block), MIGM 4852 (ischium), MIGM 4850 (partial pubis), MIGM 4935 (femur) & MIGM 4859 dermal spine) | ||||||||||
= Dacentrurus sp.
Lucas 1902
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Maidment et al. 2008 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Apatosaurus alenquerensis
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
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Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 | 1 individual | ||||||||
MG 4915, 4916, 4917, 4919, cervical vertebrae | ||||||||||
= Neosauropoda indet.
Bonaparte 1986
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Mocho et al. 2017 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Leiria |
Coordinates: | 39.4° North, 9.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 1.2° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 11 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Kimmeridgian | ||
Age range of interval: | 155.70000 - 150.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "? middle Upper Kimmeridgian" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | micaceous,gray,yellow argillaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "clayey and micaceous sandstone of yellowish-gray tint"; "pale gray clayey sandstone" | |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | H. d. Costa Cabaço, G. Zbyszewski, O. de Veiga Ferreira | Collection dates: | 1942–1943, 1952 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Baleal, Pedras Moitas | ||
Database number: | 49221 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-04-11 13:24:53 | Last modified: | 2021-08-12 13:34:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-11 13:24:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52134. | G. Zbyszewski. 1946. Les ossements d'Omosaurus découverts près de Baleal (Peniche) [THe bones of Omosaurus found near Baleal (Peniche)]. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 27:135-144 [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] |
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] | |
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] |
13559 | ETE | J. S. McIntosh. 1990. Species determination in sauropod dinosaurs with tentative suggestions for their classification. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 53-69 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
76192 | P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, F. Escaso, E. Malafaia, C. M. Chaves, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, N. Pimentel, B. C. Silva and F. Ortega. 2017. Upper Jurassic sauropod record in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): geographical and lithostratigraphical distribution. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):27A:1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |