Castanheira: Kimmeridgian, Portugal
collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski 1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Apatosaurus alenquerensis Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
1 specimen
MG 4799 (R half of a strongly procoelous caudal centrum, orig. ID as L metatarsal V)
    = Titanosauriformes indet. Salgado et al. 1997
Mannion et al. 2013
    = Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986
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]
13559ETE 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]