Vila Nova de Ourém (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Vestaria, Ourem

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.7° N, 8.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 2.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alcobaça Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• orig. "Conglomerados de Caranguejeira", mid-Cretaceous, but now "?Alcobaça Formation" (Mocho et al., 2017)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1895. Les dinosauriens du terrain jurassique supérieur du Boulonnais [The dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic terrain of the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 22:465-470 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49229: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis1 Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
1 tooth, 2 sacrals, 3 distal caudals, ulna
 Saurischia -
Macronaria indet.4 Sereno 1997 sauropod
teeth, MG 8779 (could be MG16)
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
"? Camarasaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis2, Morosaurus marchei n. sp.5
"? Camarasaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis2 Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 camarasaurid
humerus
Morosaurus marchei n. sp.5 Sauvage 1898 camarasaurid
"une espèce nouvelle"
 Saurischia -
? Turiasauria indet.3 Royo-Torres et al. 2006 sauropod
tooth, MG16 (could be MG 8779)