São Pedro de Muel, Beira Litoral (PROXY) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Lusitanosaurus type, São Pedro de Moel

Where: Leiria, Portugal (39.8° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° N, 0.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• "middle Liassic"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, gray, green, sandy limestone

• "dark gray, sandy limestone, slightly greenish"; "hard limestone, greenish, very fine-grained"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1951. Un Stégosaurien nouveau dans le Lias du Portugal [A new stegosaurian in the Lias of Portugal]. Boletim do Museu e Laboratório Mineralógico e Geoógico, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 6a série 19:107-108 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49213: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Lusitanosaurus liasicus n. gen. n. sp.
Lusitanosaurus liasicus n. gen. n. sp. Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 ornithischian
jaw fragment