Sao Pedro de Muel, Penedo da Saudade section, Bed 5106 (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.8° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 0.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Obtusum ammonoid zone, Coimbra Formation, Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J.L. Dommergues, C. Meister, and R. B. Rocha. 2010. The Sinemurian ammonites of the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): an example of complex endemic evolution. Palaeodiversity 3:59-87 [A. Kocsis/G. Harrison]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196484: authorized by Adam Kocsis, entered by George William Harrison on 17.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Asteroceratidae
Ptycharietites (Ptycharietites) heterogenus n. sp. Dommergues et al. 2010 ammonite