Miragaia (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Lourinhã

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• unofficial "Miragaia Member" but then Sobral Mb. of Farta Pao Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, calcareous sandstone and concretionary sandstone

• "compact calcareous sandstone overlain by more than 45 cm of the sandstone with lignite lamina and carbonate nodules...the matrix was very dense."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1999, 2001

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: O. Mateus, S. C. R. Maidment, and N. A. Christiansen. 2009. A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic' stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276:1815-1821 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87089: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Miragaia longicollum n. gen. n. sp.
Miragaia longicollum n. gen. n. sp. Mateus et al. 2009 ornithischian
ML 433, 433-A (juvenile)