Pedras Muitas, Baléal (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Baleal, Pedras Moitas

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.4° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• "? middle Upper Kimmeridgian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; micaceous, gray, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

• "clayey and micaceous sandstone of yellowish-gray tint"; "pale gray clayey sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. d. Costa Cabaço, G. Zbyszewski, O. de Veiga Ferreira in 1942–1943, 1952

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Zbyszewski. 1946. Les ossements d'Omosaurus découverts près de Baleal (Peniche) [THe bones of Omosaurus found near Baleal (Peniche)]. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 27:135-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49221: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus sp.1
Dacentrurus sp.1 Lucas 1902 ornithischian
MSGP A = MIGM 4846 (anterior caudal vertebra), MIGM 4851 (metacarpal), MIGM 4929 (partial ilio-sacral block), MIGM 4852 (ischium), MIGM 4850 (partial pubis), MIGM 4935 (femur) & MIGM 4859 dermal spine)
 Saurischia -
Neosauropoda indet.2
Neosauropoda indet.2 Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
MG 4915, 4916, 4917, 4919, cervical vertebrae
1Maidment et al. 2008; 2Mocho et al. 2017