Casal Novo, Batalha: Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"vegetal remains" and "trunk debris"
Reptilia - Stegosauridae
Stegosaurus cf. ungulatus Marsh 1879
1 individual
LHNB(CN)1
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Centro County:Leiria
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 8.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.7° North, 1.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:157.30000 - 152.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Alcobaça
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:bioturbation,paleosol/pedogenic,concretionary,gray carbonaceous claystone
Secondary lithology:coarse,intraclastic sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "the fossiliferous layer is intercalated between grayish clays with abundant vegetal remains, tubular bioturbation, and carbonate concretions...The vertebrate remains occur in a coarse sandy layer (0.8 m thick) with abundant intraclasts, bones, and large trunk debris at the base"
Environment:coarse channel fill
Geology comments: "mainly fluvial", with clays "representing abandoned alluvial plains, with subaerial exposure, vegetal colonization, and pedogenesis" and fossil layer "representing a high-energy channel with a coarser lag deposit."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73610
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-21 10:34:28 Last modified:2023-11-17 15:41:39
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-21 10:34:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24681.ETE F. Escaso, F. Ortega, P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, N. L. Pimentel, X. Pereda-Suberbiola, J. L. Sanz, J. C. Kullberg, M. C. Kullberg and F. Barriga. 2007. New evidence of shared dinosaur across Upper Jurassic proto-North Atlantic: Stegosaurus from Portugal. Naturwissenschaften 94:367-374 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

77624 F. Costa and O. Mateus. 2019. Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): a new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America. PLoS One 14(11):e0224263:1-124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55329 R. Gaete, J. I. Canudo, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2011. Ornithischians through time. In A. Galobart, M. Suñer, & B. Poza (eds.), Dinosaurs of Eastern Iberia 169-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30765ETE M. García-Oliva, F. Escaso, P. Dantas and E. Malafaia. 2008. Análisis histológico comparado de placas dérmicas de Stegosaurus y Dacentrurus [Comparative histological analysis of the dermal plates of Stegosaurus and Dacentrurus]. In J I Ruiz-Omeñaca, L Piñuela and J C García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes 124 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
86510 F. Ortega, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, A. Pérez García, and P. Dantas. 2009. Faunas de répteis do Jurássico Superior de Portugal: sobre las faunas de reptiles del Jurásico Superior de Portugal [Reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal: on the reptile faunas from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Paleolusitana 1:43-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
47245 J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, X. Pereda Suberbiola, L. Piñuela and J. C. García Ramos. 2013. First evidence of stegosaurs (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) in the Vega Formation, Kimmeridgian, Asturias, N Spain. Geogaceta 53:37-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]