PBDB Collection

"Cerâmica Vouga" quarry, Quinta do Vilar: Maastrichtian, Portugal

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia - Testudines

	Rosasia soutoi n. gen., n. sp. Carrington da Costa 1940	Gaffney et al. 2006	7 individuals
	Holotype not designated by Carrington da Costa (1940, 1958), but lectotype designated by Antunes and Broin (1988: 163) as the carapace in plates I and III of Carrington da Costa (1940), uncataloged, Porto, Portugal. Uncataloged skull (figs. 120, 121) in the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, described and figured in Antunes and Broin (1988: figs. 3–8, pl. 3, fig. 3, pl. 4, fig. 3, pl. 5, figs. 1–4), associated with a peripheral bone; three femoral fragments; four cervical vertebrae (Antunes and Broin, 1988); shells in this same collection are: MTA 1 (Antunes and Broin, 1988: pl. 3, figs. 1, 2), MTA 2 (Antunes and Broin, 1988: pl. 4, figs. 1, 2, pl. 1, fig. 1); two shells (only one figured) in the Servic¸os Geolo´ gicos de Portugal de Lisbonne (Carrington da Costa, 1958: pls. 3, 4); one shell in the Faculdade de Cieˆncias e Tecnologia, Universidade de Coimbra (Carrington da Costa, 1958: pls. 5, 6).
Reptilia

	Eusuchia indet. (Huxley 1875)	Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
	According to Antunes and de Broin (1988), several skulls (or probably skull fragments) of undetermined “mesosuchian” crocodylomorphs were collected at this site
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881		1 specimen
	= Theropoda informal indet. A Marsh 1881	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
	AV 9
Reptilia

	Megalosauridae indet. (Fitzinger 1843)		2 specimens
	= aff. Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
	AV 1-2
	= Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986	Isasmendi et al. 2022
Reptilia - Coeluridae

	aff. Coeluridae informal indet. A Marsh 1881	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992	1 specimen
	AV 8

	aff. Coeluridae informal indet. C Marsh 1881	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992	2 specimens
	AV 10-11
Reptilia - Troodontidae

	Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924		1 specimen
	= aff. Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
	AV 7
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969		2 specimens
	= cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
	AV 5-6
see common names

Geography

Country:	Portugal	State/province:	Aveiro
Coordinates:	40.6° North, 8.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	33.4° North, 7.9° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Argilas de Aveiro
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late Campanian to Maastrichtian (Antunes and Broin, 1988)

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	sandstone
Lithology description: ‘‘Une formation greseuse aturienne, tres probablement du Maestrichtian saumatre’’ (Carrington da Costa, 1940: 17).
Environment:	mire/swamp
Geology comments: "marshy extent, close to the coast"

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	bulk,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:	4000 kg
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis

Metadata

Also known as:	Empresa Ceramica do Vouga; Aveiro
Database number:	75866
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, M. Uhen, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Uhen
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2007-11-02 12:23:43	Last modified:	2022-03-08 15:08:12
Access level:	the public	Released:	2007-11-02 12:23:43
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

25628.

ETE

M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 1991. Nouvelles données sur les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Portugal [New data on the dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 313:113-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36720	ETE	M. T. Antunes. 1998. Dinossauros e Portugal: dois cases menos conhecidos [Dinosaurs and Portugal: two less known cases]. 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 1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33934	ETE	M. T. Antunes. 1999. Dinossauros e Portugal: Dois casos menos conhecidos. Ciencias de Terra 13:59-69 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
25630	ETE	M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau. 1992. La faune des petits dinosaures du Crétacé terminal portugais [The small dinosaur fauna from the Portuguese terminal Cretaceous]. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 78(1):49-62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27976		E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
80599		E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36728	ETE	J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. 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 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284		E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]