Alfeizerão (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Alfeizerao

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.5° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian to Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "? Middle Kimmeridgian to lower Upper Kimmeridgian"; layer C3

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular lignite

• "lignite lens"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1908

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1951. Découverte d'une riche faune de Reptiles Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique supérieur du Portugal [Discovery of a rich fauna of dinosaurian reptiles in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 233:1125-1127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49215: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus sp. Lucas 1902 ornithischian
MSGP C = MIGM 4921 (cervical, dorsal & caudal vertebrae), MIGM 4922 (cervical vertebrae), MIGM 4923 (dorsal vertebrae), MIGM 4924 (partial R humerus) & MIGM 4971 (partial R femur); plus 1 egg (!)