Also known as Empresa Ceramica do Vouga; Aveiro
Where: Aveiro, Portugal (40.6° N, 8.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 7.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Argilas de Aveiro Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• Late Campanian to Maastrichtian (Antunes and Broin, 1988)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 1991. Nouvelles données sur les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Portugal [New data on the dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 313:113-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75866: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.11.2007, edited by Mark Uhen and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Eusuchia indet.4 crocodilian According to Antunes and de Broin (1988), several skulls (or probably skull fragments) of undetermined “mesosuchian” crocodylomorphs were collected at this site
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Rosasia soutoi n. gen. n. sp.2
Rosasia soutoi n. gen. n. sp.2 Carrington da Costa 1940 sideneck turtle Holotype not designated by Carrington da Costa (1940, 1958), but lectotype designated by Antunes and Broin (1988: 163) as the carapace in plates I and III of Carrington da Costa (1940), uncataloged, Porto, Portugal. Uncataloged skull (figs. 120, 121) in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, described and figured in Antunes and Broin (1988: figs. 3–8, pl. 3, fig. 3, pl. 4, fig. 3, pl. 5, figs. 1–4), associated with a peripheral bone; three femoral fragments; four cervical vertebrae (Antunes and Broin, 1988); shells in this same collection are: MTA 1 (Antunes and Broin, 1988: pl. 3, figs. 1, 2), MTA 2 (Antunes and Broin, 1988: pl. 4, figs. 1, 2, pl. 1, fig. 1); two shells (only one figured) in the Servic¸os Geolo´ gicos de Portugal de Lisbonne (Carrington da Costa, 1958: pls. 3, 4); one shell in the Faculdade de Cieˆncias e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra (Carrington da Costa, 1958: pls. 5, 6).
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