Serra da Arrabida, level 10b. (Cretaceous of Portugal)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

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

• 2.50m

•originally the "Grès à Dinosauriens"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, fine-grained sandstone and lithified, gypsiferous, green, carbonaceous siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73351: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda - Metriacanthosauridae
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus Sauvage 1882 allosauroid
 Saurischia -
"Astrodon valdensis" = Pleurocoelus valdensis
"Astrodon valdensis" = Pleurocoelus valdensis Lydekker 1889 sauropod
 Ornithischia -
"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus
"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus Holl 1829 ornithopod
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster