Pedreira do Galinha tracksite: Early/Lower Bathonian, Portugal
collected by Carvalho 1994
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Dasicladaceae indet.
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Valvulinidae
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Valvulinidae indet.
Reuss 1860
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Trocholinidae
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Trocholina sp.
Paalzow 1922
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Nodosariata
- Vaginulinida
- Vaginulinidae
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Lenticulina sp.
Lamarck 1804
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Ostracoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Latreille 1802
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Nerineidae
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Nerineidae indet.
Zittel 1873
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Sauropoda indet.
(Marsh 1878)
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Santos et al. 2009 | 3 individuals | ||||||||
trackways MNDPDSA-G2, G3, G4 | ||||||||||
Polyonyx sp.
Santos et al. 2009
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Santos et al. 2009 | 1 individual | ||||||||
trackway MNDPDSA-G1 | ||||||||||
Brontopodus sp.
Farlow et al. 1989
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15 specimens | |||||||||
trackway MNDPDSA-G5 | ||||||||||
= cf. Brontopodus sp.
Farlow et al. 1989
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Romano et al. 2007 | |||||||||
= Polyonyx gomesi n. gen., n. sp.
Santos et al. 2009
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Santos et al. 2009 | |||||||||
trackway | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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Azerêdo et al. 1995 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Santarem |
Coordinates: | 39.6° North, 8.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.6° North, 2.9° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
Altitude: | 213 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Middle Jurassic |
Stage: | Bathonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 4 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Bathonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Serra de Aire | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: near the Bajocian-Bathonian boundary; "The main track level of the Galinha tracksite is a single bedding surface of about 40,000 m2 forming the floor of an abandoned limestone quarry" (Santos et al. 2009); lower part of formation
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Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | micaceous lithified "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | pyritic,shelly/skeletal wackestone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "The limestone at this quarry is a well-bedded micrite rich sequence"; the footprint layer is a biomicrite wackestone, with internal "brechhification" and pyrite pigmentation | |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: exposed sequence was "deposited in lacustrine, paralic and very shallow, restricted marine conditions" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Spatial orientation: | life position |
Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Articulated whole bodies: | some |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,observed (not collected) | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | Carvalho | Collection dates: | 1994 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Serra D'Aire, Fatima, MNDPDSA, Cantera de Galinha | ||
Database number: | 57143 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano, M. Oreska |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-12-05 16:04:16 | Last modified: | 2021-09-02 13:31:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-12-05 16:04:16 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15460. | ETE | V. F. dos Santos, M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, J. Carvalho, A. M. Galopim Carvalho and J. J. Moratalla. 1995. A new sauropod tracksite from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:5-13 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
69025 | L. Alcalá, M. G. Lockley, A. Cobos, L. Mampel, and R. Royo-Torres. 2016. Evaluating the dinosaur track record: an integrative approach to understanding the regional and global distribution, scientific importance, preservation, and management of tracksites. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 100-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
65917 | M. Avanzini, G. Leonardi, and P. Mietto. 2003. Lavinipes cheminii ichnogen., ichnosp. nov., a possible sauropodomorph track from the Lower Jurassic of the Italian Alps. Ichnos 10(2–4):179-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17776 | ETE | A. C. Azerêdo, M. M. Ramalho, V. F. Santos and A. M. G. Carvalho. 1995. Calcários com pegadas de dinossáurios da Serra d'Aire: microfácies e paleoambientes [Limestones with dinosaur tracks from Serra d'Aire: microfacies and paleoenvironment]. GAIA 11:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
69056 | D. Castanera, V. F. Santos, L. Piñuela, C. Pascual, B. Vila, J. I. Canudo, and J. J. Moratalla. 2016. Iberian sauropod tracks through time: variations in sauropod manus and pes track morphologies. In P. L. Falkingham, D. Marty, & A. Richter (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps 120-137 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
77926 | D. Castanera, B. Vila, N. L. Razzolini, V. F. Santos, and J. I. Canudo. 2014. Sauropod trackways of the Iberian Peninsula: palaeoetological and palaeoenvironmental implications. Journal of Iberian Geology 40(1):49-59 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
36721 | ETE | 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] |
76505 | V. F. dos Santos and L. A. Rodrigues. 2005. Scientific and cultural significance of some Portuguese dinosaur tracksites. International Symposium on Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates Palaeoichnology. Abstract Book 62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
58781 | M. G. Lockley. 1997. Fatima. In P. J. Currie & K. Padian (ed.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 240 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
55488 | M. Romano, M. A. Whyte, and S. J. Jackson. 2007. Trackway ratio: A new look at trackway gauge in the analysis of quadrupedal dinosaur trackways and its implications for ichnotaxonomy. Ichnos 14(3–4):257-270 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
62321 | S. W. Salisbury, A. Romilio, M. C. Herne, R. T. Tucker, and J. P. Nair. 2016. The Dinosaurian Ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 16. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6, suppl.):1-152 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
70664 | V. F. Santos. 2016. Dinosaur tracksites in the Middle Jurassic of Maciço Calcário Estremenho (west-central Portugal): a geoheritage to be enhanced. Comunicações Geológicas 103(Especial 1):55-58 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
35187 | ETE | V. F. Santos, J. J. Moratalla, and R. Royo-Torres. 2009. New sauropod trackways from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(3):409-422 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Carrano] |
70303 | J. L. Sanz. 2000. Yacimientos ibéricos de dinosaurios [Iberian dinosaur localities]. Dinosaurios: Los Señores del Pasado [Dinosaurs: The Lords of the Land] 267-299 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |