Also known as Cabo Espichel
Where: Lisboa, Portugal (38.5° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 1.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Papo Seco Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; medium-grained, coarse sandstone and fine-grained, gypsiferous, gray, white, silty sandstone
•"a meter thick, white or grey, fine-grained silty sandstones, with gypsum and thin organic laminae. The organic laminae frequently highlight distinct erosive-based sets with cross-stratification and, sometimes, parallel stratification. These sediments are interbedded with up to three layers of trough cross-stratified, moderately sorted, medium to coarse feldspathic sandstones. In general, these coarser grained layers are less than 0.80 m thick, wedging out laterally into the fine-grained deposits. Channel-shaped beds of fining upward coarse to medium-grained sandstone with scattered pebbles occasionally occur. Cross stratification and the geometry of the channel-shape beds indicates a general W to SW direction of the palaeocurrents. This mostly siliciclastic interval passes upwards to mudstone-marl layers with carbonate nodules.
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast, trace
Collected in 2011
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S. Figueiredo, P. Dinis, P. Rosina and I. Bachtsevanidou Strantzali. 2017. A new record of a possible ornithopod footprint from the Lower Cretaceous of Cabo Espichel (Sesimbra, Portugal). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 56(2):217-231 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 217238: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.02.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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