cliffs of Praia de Valmitão (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Centro, 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 Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, micaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• The remains were part of a private collection that was recently donated to the Sociedade de Historia Natural. Laboratorio de Paleontologia e Paleoecologia of the Sociedade de Historia Natural in Torres Vedras, Portugal

Primary reference: E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, F. Escaso and B. Silva. 2015. New evidence of Ceratosaurus (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Jurassic of the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal. Historical Biology 27(7):938-946 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156123: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 08.05.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus (aff. Ceratosaurus) nasicornis Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
SHN(JJS)-65, L femur, R tibia & shaft fragment of L fibula. The femur and tibia are well preserved and almost complete.
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocinae indet. diplodocine
SHN (JJS) 177, partial skeleton