Santa Rita: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. (Marsh 1878)
Mocho et al. 2017 1 specimen
SHN 534, partial skeleton
Reptilia - Pleurosternidae
Pleurosternidae indet. Cope 1868
1 individual
ALT SHN.066 (holotype)
    = Selenemys lusitanica n. gen., n. sp. Pérez-García and Ortega 2011
Pérez-García and Ortega 2011
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Centro County:Lisboa
Coordinates: 39.2° North, 9.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.5° North, 1.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ALT SHN collection
Metadata
Also known as:Torres Vedras
Database number:108806
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-05-05 20:17:15 Last modified:2023-11-17 15:27:09
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-05 20:17:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

86510. F. Ortega, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, A. Pérez García, and P. Dantas. 2009. Faunas de répteis do Jurássico Superior de Portugal: sobre las faunas de reptiles del Jurásico Superior de Portugal [Reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: on the reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Paleolusitana 1:43-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

76192 P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, F. Escaso, E. Malafaia, C. M. Chaves, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, N. Pimentel, B. C. Silva and F. Ortega. 2017. Upper Jurassic sauropod record in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): geographical and lithostratigraphical distribution. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):27A:1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35985 A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2011. A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):60-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
45093 A. Pérez-García and F. Ortega. 2011. Selenemys lusitanica, gen. et. sp. nov., a new pleurosternid turtle (Terstudines: Paracryptodira) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31(1):60-69 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]