northern Praia da Corva (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Torres Vedras

Where: Lisboa, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• described as Alcobaça Formation, Lourinhã Group, upper part of Amoreira-Porto Novo Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "sandstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, B. Silva and F. Escaso. 2008. Fragmento de un maxilar de terópodo de Praia da Corva (Jurásico Superior. Torres Vedras, Portugal). Palaeontologica Nova 8:273-279 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154726: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Torvosaurus gurneyi1
Torvosaurus gurneyi1 Hendrickx and Mateus 2014 tetanuran theropod
ALT-SHN.116, maxilla fragment
 Saurischia -
Turiasauria indet.2
Turiasauria indet.2 Royo-Torres et al. 2006 sauropod
tooth
1Hendrickx and Mateus 2014; 2Ortega et al. 2010