Praia de Porto Dinheiro cliff (top) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis type

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Member (Lourinhã Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• = "Formação de Lourinha"; close to boundary with Sobral Fm.

•Mateus et al. 2017: includes ostracods pointing to a late Kimmeridgian to early Tithonian age in its middle part (Werner, 1986) and the dinocyst Cribroperidinium granuligerum (Klement) “complex” indicating a mid Kimmeridgian to late Tithonian age for the lower part (Taylor et al., 2013).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone and mudstone

• Mateus et al. 2017: The Praia da Amoreiras Mb. was interpreted by Hill (1989) as deposited in the distal mudflat of alluvial fans with both sheetflood and channelized flows shifting on the surface, draining southeastward from the Berlengas basement block; however, Taylor et al. (2013) consider it as deposited by a meandering river system. The Porto Novo Mb. comprises distal deposits of a fluvial meander system grading laterally to tide-influenced upper deltaic deposits with more straight channels, thus including the fluvial–tidal transition zone during limited transgressions.
• The strata of Porto Dinheiro are fluvial sediments that consist of shales, marls, sandstones, and conglomerates (Schwarz and Fechner 2004)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Anunciação in 1987

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F.-J. Ortega Coloma. 1992. Excavación, restauración y gestión de macrovertebrados fósiles [Excavation, restoration and management of macrovertebrate fossils]. In E. Jiménez-Fuentes (ed.), Vertebrados Fósiles de Castilla y León 13-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49304: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Triconodonta -
Triconodonta indet.3 Osborn 1888 triconodont
 Multituberculata -
Multituberculata indet.3 multituberculate
 Symmetrodonta -
Symmetrodonta indet.3 symmetrodont
 Theriamorpha - Dryolestidae
Dryolestidae indet.3 Marsh 1879 mammal
 Theriamorpha -
Zatheria indet.3 McKenna 1975 mammal
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet.3 Owen 1842 dinosaur
 Saurischia - Diplodocidae
Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis n. gen. n. sp.1 Bonaparte and Mateus 1999 diplodocine
ML 414
 Theropoda - Megalosauridae
Torvosaurus gurneyi2 Hendrickx and Mateus 2014 tetanuran theropod
teeth
 Pterosauria -
Pterosauria indet.3 Kaup 1834 pterosaur
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet.3 Hay 1930 crocodilian
 Testudines -
Testudines indet.3 Batsch 1788 turtle