Peralta (Alcobaca Formation) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Lisboa, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Member (Lourinhã Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "probably" from the Praia do Amoreira–Porto Novo Member and therefore apparently not the same as the two Peralta vertebrate collections (49261 and 97526) from the Sobral Member of the Lourinha Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ALTSHN collection

Primary reference: A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2011. A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):60-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108808: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.05.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata - Pleurosternidae
Selenemys lusitanica Pérez-García and Ortega 2011 turtle
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
ML 342, tooth