Malhão (croc locality) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Algarve, Portugal (38.0° N, 7.6° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Perisphinctes effrenatus ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Entre Amendoeira et Azinhal, Flanc nord de Malhão prés Estoy

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. T. Young, S. Hua, L. Steel, D. Foffa, S. L. Brusatte, S. Thuring, O. Mateus, J. I. Ruiz-Omenaca, P. Havlik, Y. Lepage, and M. B. Andrade. 2014. Revision of the Late Jurassic teleosaurid genus Machimosaurus (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia). Royal Society Open Science 1:140222 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163134: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 15.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Machimosaurus hugii Meyer 1837 marine crocodile
Partial snout
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae