Cabo Espichel tracksite (level 3): Tithonian, Portugal
collected 1992-1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiochelyidae
Plesiochelyidae indet. Rütimeyer 1873
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 individual
trackway
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
11 individuals
trackways
    = Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989
dos Santos 1998
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. (Beyrich 1845)
Meyer and Pittman 1995
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerineidae indet. Zittel 1873
Meyer and Pittman 1995
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Meyer and Pittman 1995
Foraminiferida
Foraminiferida indet. (Eichwald 1830)
spelled with current rank as Foraminifera
unclassified
cf. Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 9.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.6° North, 1.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Espichel
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Portlandian or Portlandian B
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,bioturbation wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "shallow water carbonates" with "irregular burrowed surfaces in wackestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,species names
Collection methods:observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1992-1993
Collection method comments: Eleven sauropod trackways representing at least seven small sauropods. One tridactyl biped, probably a theropod.
Metadata
Database number:55235
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-30 11:40:17 Last modified:2022-02-14 15:25:47
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-30 11:40:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
14683.ETE M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, and V. F. Santos. 1995. Trackway evidence for a herd of juvenile sauropods from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:27-35 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36721ETE V. F. dos Santos. 1998. Dinosaur tracksites in Portugal: the Jurassic-Cretaceous record. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 7-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
79841 S. Figueiredo, P. Dinis, P. Rosina and I. Bachtsevanidou Strantzali. 2017. A new record of a possible ornithopod footprint from the Lower Cretaceous of Cabo Espichel (Sesimbra, Portugal). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 56(2):217-231 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54312 M. G. Lockley. 1997. Cabo Espichel. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 87 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17978ETE M. G. Lockley, J. G. Pittman, C. A. Meyer and V. F. Santos. 1995. On the common occurrence of manus-dominated sauropod trackways in Mesozoic carbonates. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:119-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17979ETE C. A. Meyer and J. G. Pittman. 1995. A comparison between the Brontopodus ichnofacies of Portugal, Switzerland and Texas. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:125-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]