Praia da Foia do Carro tracksite (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Algarve, Portugal (37.1° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.4° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• two levels; "Portlandian B"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. do Carmo Ramalho in 1995

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: V. F. Santos, P. Dantas, J. Moratalla, P. Terrinha, C. Coke, M. Agostinho, and A. M. Galopim Carvalho. 2000. Primeiros vestígios de dinossáurios na orla Mesozóica Algarvia, Portugal [First traces of dinosaurs on the Mesozoic coast of Algarve, Portugal]. In J. B. Diez & A. C. Balbino (ed.), Paleontologia em Portugal: História e Colaborações Espanha-Portugal. I Congresso Ibérico de Paleontología e XVI Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología Abstracts:20-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206005: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989 sauropod