Pedreira do Avelino tracksite, level 5: Late Kimmeridgian, Portugal
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Parabrontopodidae
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| "narrow-gauge" | ||||||||||
| Lockley et al. 1995 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Setúbal |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 9.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 23.4° North, 7.8° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Altitude: | 176 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.21 - 149.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Azóia | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 15 m below base of overlying Espichel Series | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Disassociated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Zambujal de Baixo | ||
| Database number: | 61665 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-06-22 06:32:29 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-06-22 06:32:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17761. | ETE | M. G. Lockley and V. F. dos Santos. 1993. A preliminary report on sauropod trackways from the Avelino site, Sesimbra region, Upper Jurassic Portugal. GAIA 6:381-42 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 77926 | D. Castanera, B. Vila, N. L. Razzolini, V. F. Santos, and J. I. Canudo. 2014. Sauropod trackways of the Iberian Peninsula: palaeoetological and palaeoenvironmental implications. Journal of Iberian Geology 40(1):49-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 36721 | ETE | V. F. dos Santos. 1998. Dinosaur tracksites in Portugal: the Jurassic-Cretaceous record. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 7-16 [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] | |
| 36766 | ETE | M. G. Lockley, J. O. Farlow, and C. A. Meyer. 1995. Brontopodus and Parabrontopodus ichnogen. nov. and the significance of wide- and narrow-gauge sauropod trackways. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:135-145 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] |
| 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] |