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
Omosaurus armatus Marsh 1877
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
Maidment et al. 2008
Reptilia
Apatosaurus alenquerensis Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 1 individual
MG 4915, 4916, 4917, 4919, cervical vertebrae
    = Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986
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:

13162ETE 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]
25691ETE 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]
13143ETE 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]
29301ETE 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]
13559ETE 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]