Moçanfaneira, Torres Vedras: Middle Tithonian, Portugal
collected by D. L. Antunes 1995-1996
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Stegosauridae
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Dacentrurus armatus
(Marsh 1877)
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1 individual | |||||||||
ALT.Moç. 01.00016 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Lisboa |
Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 9.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.3° North, 0.9° East | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Middle Tithonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Freixial | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: from a "transition zone" between the Sobral and Freixial Formations, Lourinhá Group; in the highest part of the Everticyclammina virguliana Biozone (probably now the Arranho Mb.) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,micaceous sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | marl |
Lithology description: "The predominant lithology of the area is an association of fine-grained micaceous sandstones and marl beds of continental origin in which carbonized plant remains are common" | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Geology comments: "deposited in an aquatic setting of little depth (floodplain) and low energy" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
Associated major elements: | all |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | D. L. Antunes | Collection dates: | 1995-1996 |
Metadata
Database number: | 74502 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-08-08 07:20:54 | Last modified: | 2021-08-12 13:42:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-08-08 07:20:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
24990. | ETE | F. Escaso, F. Ortega, P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, B. Silva and J. L. Sanz. 2007. Elementos postcraneales de Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) del Jurásico Superior de Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal) [Postcranial elements of Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal)]. In Cantera Paleontológica, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain 157-172 [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] | |
30765 | ETE | 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] |
76192 | P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, F. Escaso, E. Malafaia, C. M. Chaves, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, N. Pimentel, B. C. Silva and F. Ortega. 2017. Upper Jurassic sauropod record in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): geographical and lithostratigraphical distribution. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):27A:1-50 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |