Vale de Portinheiro (bed C10) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Porto Dinheiro, Carrasqueira

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; micaceous, gray, green, muddy sandstone

• "dark gray-greenish sandstone, slightly micaceous, with marly cement"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by C. Ribeiro in 1863

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88194: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 03.04.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
"a saurian vertebra"
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Gervilleia tittoni" = Gervillia
"Gervilleia tittoni" = Gervillia oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
"Cyprina securiformis" = Arctica
"Cyprina securiformis" = Arctica clam