Peralta (Alcobaca Formation): Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Pleurosternidae
Selenemys lusitanica Pérez-García and Ortega 2011
Reptilia
Ceratosaurus sp. Marsh 1884
Ortega et al. 2009 1 specimen
ML 342, tooth
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province: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:Lourinhã Member:Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "probably" from the Praia do Amoreira–Porto Novo Member and therefore apparently not the same as the two Peralta vertebrate collections (49261 and 97526) from the Sobral Member of the Lourinha Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ALTSHN collection
Metadata
Database number:108808
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-05-05 21:36:24 Last modified:2022-04-13 07:49:05
Access level:the public Released:2011-05-05 21:36:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]