Lagosteiros B tracksite: Hauterivian, Portugal
collected by M. Antunes 1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
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? Ornithopoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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3 specimens | |||||||||
more like Camptosaurus than Iguanodon | ||||||||||
Iguanodon sp.
Mantell 1825
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6 individuals | |||||||||
2 trackways, 4 isolated tracks | ||||||||||
Neosauropus lagosteirensis n. gen., n. sp.
Antunes 1976
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1 individual | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Dinosauria | ||||||||||
14-16 tracks over 50 m | ||||||||||
Megalosauropus (Eutynichnium) gomesi n. sp.
Antunes 1976
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4 individuals | |||||||||
10 tracks | ||||||||||
? Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
"not impossible that they were produced by stegosaurians or ankylosaurians"; 1 trackway, 2 isolated tracks | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Setúbal |
Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 9.2° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.0° North, 1.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Hauterivian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
Key time interval: | Hauterivian | ||
Age range of interval: | 132.90000 - 129.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Ladeiras | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: orig. "Calcários Corálicos de Lagosteiros" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | calcareous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "calciclastic sands" | |
Environment: | lagoonal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Associated major elements: | many |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | M. Antunes | Collection dates: | 1971 |
Metadata
Database number: | 192730 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-04-17 15:40:35 | Last modified: | 2023-11-21 16:23:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-04-17 15:40:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
65423. | M. T. Antunes. 1976. Dinossáurios Eocretácicos de Lagosteiros [Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Lagosteiros]. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Ciências da Terra 1:1-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
65917 | M. Avanzini, G. Leonardi, and P. Mietto. 2003. Lavinipes cheminii ichnogen., ichnosp. nov., a possible sauropodomorph track from the Lower Jurassic of the Italian Alps. Ichnos 10(2–4):179-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
79841 | S. Figueiredo, P. Dinis, P. Rosina and I. Bachtsevanidou Strantzali. 2017. A new record of a possible ornithopod footprint from the Lower Cretaceous of Cabo Espichel (Sesimbra, Portugal). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 56(2):217-231 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
75421 | S. D. Figueiredo, C. N. d. Carvalho, P. P. Cunha and I. S. Carvalho. 2021. New dinosaur tracks from the lower Barremian of Portugal (Areia do Mastro Formation, Cape Espichel). Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 9:84-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
86555 | S. D. Figueiredo, I. S. Carvalho, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, P. P. Cunha, V. Antunes and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2022. New ornithopod footprints from the Areia do Mastro Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Espichel Cape (Portugal, Western Iberia) and their context in the Iberian ichnological ornithopod record. Cretaceous Research 131:105069 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
81822 | S. D. Figueiredo, P. P. Cunha, X. Pereda Suberbiola, C. N. Carvalho, I. S. Carvalho, E. Buffetaut, H. Tong, M. Fernanda Sousa, V. Antunes and R. Anastácio. 2022. The dinosaur tracksite from the lower Barremian of Areia do Mastro Formation (Cabo Espichel, Portugal): implications for dinosaur behavior. Cretaceous Research 137:105219 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
65420 | M. G. Lockley, K. J. Houck, and N. K. Prince. 1986. North America's largest dinosaur trackway site: implications for Morrison Formation paleoecology. Geological Society America Bulletin 97:1163-1176 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70661 | V. F. Santos, P. Caetano, and A. Pólvora. 2016. Sesimbra Geocircuit and dinosaur tracksites. Comunicações Geológicas 103(Especial 1):153-158 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
79840 | V. F. Santos, P. M. Callapez, and N. P. C. Rodrigues. 2013. Dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous of the Algarve Basin (Portugal): new data on the ornithopod palaeoecology and palaeobiogeography of the Iberian Peninsula. Cretaceous Research 40:158-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |