Castanheira (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abadia Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• early-middle Kimmeridgian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski in the 1940s

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 49246: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
MG 4799 (R half of a strongly procoelous caudal centrum, orig. ID as L metatarsal V)