Porto das Barcas (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Porto de Barcas

Where: Lisboa, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Member (Lourinhã Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• orig. Sobral Mb.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; gray mudstone

• "brackish to marine"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski, A. Walen in 1950s, 2005–2006

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 49230: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.04.2005, edited by Roger Benson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpetontidae indet.2 Fox and Naylor 1982 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Ceratosaurus sp.6 Marsh 1884 ceratosaur
ML 809, tooth
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Torvosaurus sp.1 Galton and Jensen 1979 tetanuran theropod
ML 1188, nest with eggs and embryos
Torvosaurus ? gurneyi4 Hendrickx and Mateus 2014 tetanuran theropod
FUB PB Ther 1; "Megalosaurus" pombali
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
Megalosaurus pombali Lapparent et al. 1951 theropod
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.5 Marsh 1878 sauropod
MG 8805, middle caudal vertebra (orig. assigned to A. alenquerensis)
Eusauropoda indet.5 Upchurch 1995 sauropod
MG 8800, middle caudal vertebra (orig. assigned to A. alenquerensis)
 Saurischia - Camarasauridae
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis
"Apatosaurus alenquerensis" = Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 camarasaurid
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Paulchoffatiidae
Kuehneodon barcasensis n. sp.3 Hahn and Hahn 2001 multituberculate
IPFUB Mam Barc 1, m1 left (holotype); IPFUB Mam Barc 2, P3 right