Cabo Espichel tracksite (level 5): Tithonian, Portugal
collected 1992-1993

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Anchyspirocyclina lusitanica
Meyer and Pittman 1995
Miliolinidae indet.
Meyer and Pittman 1995
Reptilia
Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
5 individuals
trackways; PM5-1
    = Brontopodus sp. Farlow et al. 1989
dos Santos 1998
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Pycnodontidae indet. (Agassiz 1833)
Meyer and Pittman 1995
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Setúbal County:Sesimbra
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
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Portlandian or Portlandian B, possibly Lourinha Fm., or "Espichel unit"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,bioturbation,shelly/skeletal wackestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "shallow water carbonates" with "irregular burrowed surfaces in wackestone"; "miliolinid wackestone...[with] circumgranular cracking"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
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
Metadata
Also known as:Pegadas de Mula, Pedra da Mua
Database number:55753
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-11-03 14:19:25 Last modified:2023-11-21 16:22:32
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-03 14:19:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
65423. M. T. Antunes. 1976. Dinossáurios Eocretácicos de Lagosteiros [Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Lagosteiros]. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Ciências da Terra 1:1-35 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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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]
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]
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]
86555 S. D. Figueiredo, I. S. Carvalho, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, P. P. Cunha, V. Antunes and I. Díaz-Martínez. 2022. New ornithopod footprints from the Areia do Mastro Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Espichel Cape (Portugal, Western Iberia) and their context in the Iberian ichnological ornithopod record. Cretaceous Research 131:105069 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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