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
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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.
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