Porto Novo, Maceira (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Porto Nova

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "upper Upper Kimmeridgian to lower Lower Tithonian"; orig. Sobral Mb. of Farta Pao Fm., then assigned to Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Fm./Mb.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49253: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus sp.1
Dacentrurus sp.1 Lucas 1902 ornithischian
MSGP K, dermal spine
 Saurischia -
Sauropoda indet.2
Sauropoda indet.2 Marsh 1878 sauropod
MG 8400, anterior caudal vertebra
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocinae indet.2
Diplodocinae indet.2 diplodocine
three incomplete middle/posterior caudal centra (MG 25197.4-6), two dorsal rib fragments (MG 25197.1 and MG 25197.3), and an indeterminate element (MG 25197.2), all associated
 Saurischia -
Titanosauriformes indet.3
Titanosauriformes indet.3 Salgado et al. 1997 sauropod
MG 8804 (anterior caudal centrum)
1Galton 1991; 2Mocho et al. 2016; 3Mocho et al. 2017