Praia das Aguncheiras: Early Barremian, Portugal
collected by C. Natário 1999, 2004–2006, 2020

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Spinosauridae
1 individual
ML1190, partial left dentary, two teeth,four dorsal neural arches, five caudal centra, fragments of chevrons, dorsal rib fragments, right scapula, right pubicshaft, possible pubic peduncle of left ilium, two calcanea, and one pedal ungual phalanx
Arden et al. 2019
Barker et al. 2021
Mateus and Estraviz-López 2022
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Lisboa County:Setübal
Coordinates: 38.4° North, 9.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.8° North, 15.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Early Barremian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Papo Seco
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: layers 36–38 of Choffat
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lagoonal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:C. Natário Collection dates:1999, 2004–2006, 2020
Metadata
Also known as:Praia do Guincho
Database number:218871
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-03-02 11:23:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2021-03-02 11:23:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
75802. O. Mateus, R. Araújo, C. Natário and R. Castanhinha. 2011. A new specimen of the theropod dinosaur Baryonyx from the early Cretaceous of Portugal and taxonomic validity of Suchosaurus. Zootaxa 2827:54-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

84120 T. M. S. Arden, C. G. Klein, S. Zouhri and N. R. Longrich. 2019. Aquatic adaptation in the skull of carnivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) and the evolution of aquatic habits in spinosaurids. Cretaceous Research 93:275-284 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
78569 C. T. Barker, D. W. E. Hone, D. Naish, A. Cau, J. A. F. Lockwood, B. Foster, C. E. Clarkin, P. Schneider, and N. J. Gostling. 2021. New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae. Scientific Reports 11:19340:1-16 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/M. Carrano]
75801 E. Malafaia, J. M. Gasulla, F. Escaso, I. Narvaéz, and F. Ortega. 2020. An update of the spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) fossil record from the Lower Cretaceous of the Iberian Peninsula: distribution, diversity, and evolutionary history. Journal of Iberian Geology 46:431-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
81326 E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, F. Escaso and P. Mocho. 2013. Rediscovery of a lost portion of the holotype of Suchosaurus girardi (Sauvage, 1897–98), now related to the spinosaurid theropod Baryonyx. In F. Torcida Fernández-Baldor & P. Huerta (ed.), VI Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Libro de Resúmenes 82-84 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80581 O. Mateus and D. Estraviz-López. 2022. A new theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Barremian) of Cabo Espichel, Portugal: implications for spinosaurid evolution. PLoS One 17(2):e0262614:1-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]