Also known as Saint-Espichel, Cap d'Espichel

Where: Centro, Portugal (38.4° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 1.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Papo Seco Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• "Formação de Papo Seco", C1HB; also called the Grès à Dinosauriens" and the Almargem beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Choffat, A. F. de Lapparent, A. Ferreira in 1878, 1940, 1951

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1896. Les Crocodiliens et les Dinosauriens des terrains Mésozoïques du Portugal [The crocodilians and dinosaurs from the Mesozoic terrains of Portugal]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 24:46-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49255: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005

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