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
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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] |