Porto Novo, Maceira: Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian, Portugal
collected 1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Omosaurus lennieri
Nopcsa 1911
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MSGP K, dermal spine | ||||||||||
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= Dacentrurus sp.
Lucas 1902
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Galton 1991 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Mocho et al. 2016 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| MG 8400, anterior caudal vertebra | ||||||||||
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Diplodocinae indet.
Janensch 1929
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Mocho et al. 2016 | 1 individual | ||||||||
| three incomplete middle/posterior caudal centra (MG 25197.4-6), two dorsal rib fragments (MG 25197.1 and MG 25197.3), and an indeterminate element (MG 25197.2), all associated | ||||||||||
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Brachiosaurus atalaiensis
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MG 8804 (anterior caudal centrum) | ||||||||||
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= Sauropoda indet.
Marsh 1878
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Mannion et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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= cf. Lusotitan atalaiensis
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
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Mocho et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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= Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Mocho et al. 2017 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Leiria |
| Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 9.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.5° North, 0.9° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 67 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Freixial | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "upper Upper Kimmeridgian to lower Lower Tithonian"; orig. Sobral Mb. of Farta Pao Fm., then assigned to Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Fm./Mb. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1940s |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Porto Nova | ||
| Database number: | 49253 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-12 07:49:32 | Last modified: | 2022-05-06 11:27:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-12 07:49:32 |
| 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:
| 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] |
| 46153 | P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 81616 | P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, and F. Ortega. 2016. Systematic review of Late Jurassic sauropods from the Museu Geológico collections (Lisboa, Portugal). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(2):227-250 [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] |