Salir do Porto (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.5° N, 9.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 24.7° N, 9.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alcobaça Formation, Kimmeridgian (154.8 - 149.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Zbyszewski in the 1950s

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49216: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
SHN 537 (caudal vertebrae, pelvic fragments, pedal element); SHN 553 (tooth)
? Turiasauria indet. Royo-Torres et al. 2006 sauropod
SHN 504 (tooth); SHN (JJS) 146, 147, 151, 154 (teeth)
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
3 caudal vertebrae