Also known as Saint-Espichel, Cap d'Espichel
Where: Centro, Portugal (38.4° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 1.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Papo Seco Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• "Formação de Papo Seco", C1HB; also called the Grès à Dinosauriens" and the Almargem beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by P. Choffat, A. F. de Lapparent, A. Ferreira in 1878, 1940, 1951
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1896. Les Crocodiliens et les Dinosauriens des terrains Mésozoïques du Portugal [The crocodilians and dinosaurs from the Mesozoic terrains of Portugal]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 24:46-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49255: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Chelonia indet." = Testudines2
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Suchosaurus girardi n. sp.4
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