Castanheira: Kimmeridgian, Portugal
collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski 1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Apatosaurus alenquerensis
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MG 4799 (R half of a strongly procoelous caudal centrum, orig. ID as L metatarsal V) | ||||||||||
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= Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Mannion et al. 2013 | |||||||||
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= Neosauropoda indet.
Bonaparte 1986
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Mocho et al. 2016 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Leiria |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 9.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.2° North, 1.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 42 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 |
| Key time interval: | Kimmeridgian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 154.8 - 149.2 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Abadia | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: early-middle Kimmeridgian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski | Collection dates: | 1940s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49246 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-04-12 06:51:02 | Last modified: | 2022-05-06 11:36:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-04-12 06:51:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 13143. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 46153 | P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 13559 | ETE | J. S. McIntosh. 1990. Species determination in sauropod dinosaurs with tentative suggestions for their classification. In K. Carpenter and P. J. Currie (eds.), Dinosaur Systematics: Perspectives and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 53-69 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 81616 | P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, and F. Ortega. 2016. Systematic review of Late Jurassic sauropods from the Museu Geológico collections (Lisboa, Portugal). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(2):227-250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |