Boca do Chapim, Cape Espichel: Early Barremian, Portugal
collected by P. Choffat, A. F. de Lapparent, A. Ferreira 1878, 1940, 1951

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
Buffetaut 2007
Reptilia - Theropoda
Sauvage 1898 1 specimen
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Antunes and Mateus 2003
Reptilia - Spinosauridae
2 specimens
Sauvage 1898
MG324, MNHN/UL.I.F2.176
Reptilia
Sauvage 1898 7 specimens
2 teeth (MSGP O), 4 vertebrae, distal R femur
Sauvage 1896
Antunes and Mateus 2003
Antunes and Mateus 2003
Sauvage 1898 3 specimens
Antunes and Mateus 2003
Ruiz-Omeñaca and Canudo 2003
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes
Buffetaut 2007
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Centro County:Lisboa
Coordinates: 38.4° North, 9.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.8° North, 15.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:60 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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
Local section:Boca do Chapim Local bed:36-38
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Formação de Papo Seco", C1HB; also called the Grès à Dinosauriens" and the Almargem beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "lagoonal sandstones filling a valley at the beginning of a transgressive phase"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. Choffat, A. F. de Lapparent, A. Ferreira Collection dates:1878, 1940, 1951
Metadata
Also known as:Saint-Espichel, Cap d'Espichel
Database number:49255
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 07:56:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-12 07:56:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
42900. H.-E. Sauvage. 1896. Les Crocodiliens et les Dinosauriens des terrains Mésozoïques du Portugal [The crocodilians and dinosaurs from the Mesozoic terrains of Portugal]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 24:46-48 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13162ETE M. T. Antunes and O. Mateus. 2003. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:77-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25417ETE E. Buffetaut. 2007. The spinosaurid dinosaur Baryonyx (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. Geological Magazine [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70766 E. Buffetaut. 2010. Spinosaurs before Stromer: early finds of spinosaurid dinosaurs and their interpretations. Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 343:175-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
75421 S. D. Figueiredo, C. N. d. Carvalho, P. P. Cunha and I. S. Carvalho. 2021. New dinosaur tracks from the lower Barremian of Portugal (Areia do Mastro Formation, Cape Espichel). Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection 9:84-96 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25579ETE P. M. Galton. 1994. Notes on Dinosauria and Pterodactylia from the Cretaceous of Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 194(2/3):253-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13143ETE A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/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]
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]
55500 J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca and J. I. Canudo. 2003. Dinosaurios (Saurischia, Ornithischia) en el Barremiense (Cretácico Inferior) de la península Ibérica [Dinosaurs (Saurischia, Ornithischia) in the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Iberian peninsula]. In F. Pérez Lorente (ed.), Dinosaurios y Otros Reptiles Mesozóicos de España 269-312 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63601 H.-E. Sauvage. 1898. Vertébrés Fossiles du Portugal. Contributions à l’Étude des Poissons et des Reptiles du Jurassique et du Crétacique [Fossil Vertebrates of Portugal. Contributions to the Study of the Fishes and Reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous] 1-46 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano]
42902 H.-E. Sauvage. 1898. Les Reptiles et les Poissons des terrains Mésozoïques du Portugal [The reptiles and fishes from the Mesozoic terrains of Portugal]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 26:442-446 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]