São Pedro da Cadeira, Praia de Cambelas (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Torres Vedras, TVSPC 12

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.1° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 0.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Freixial Formation, Middle Tithonian to Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• orig. Freixial Mb. of Farta Pao Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; sandstone and paleosol/pedogenic, brown, red mudstone

• delta plain
• "The predominant lithology of the area corresponds to an association of sandstones with laminar geometry, pelites, and conglomerates that represent the fill of paleochannels."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski, E. Malafaia et al. in the 1940s, 2000s

Collection methods: surface (float), 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 49248: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005, edited by Matthew Smith and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Reptilia
 Loricata - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes dinophilus6 crocodile eggshell
Krokolithidae
 Theropoda -
Lusovenator santosi2 Malafaia et al. 2020 allosauroid
ALT-SHN.0019 (= SHN.019), partial skeleton
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.3 Marsh 1878 sauropod
MG collections (middle caudal centrum)
Turiasauria indet.5 Royo-Torres et al. 2006 sauropod
tooth
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae indet.4 diplodocid
SHN (JJS) 178
 Ornithischia - Camptosauridae
Camptosauridae indet.1 Marsh 1885 camptosaurid
femur