Lourinhã: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dinosauria
Omosaurus lennieri Nopcsa 1911
1 individual
MSGP H; juvenile R femur
    = Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Maidment et al. 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Lisboa
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 9.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:40 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:155.70000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "upper Upper Kimmeridgian to lower Lower Tithonian"
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:49222
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:J. Tennant Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-11 13:30:53 Last modified:2014-02-02 10:55:49
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-11 13:30:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]
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]