Ulsa, Cambelas: Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian, Portugal
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Plesiochelyidae
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Plesiochelys sp.
Rütimeyer 1873
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1 individual | |||||||||
| ALT-SHN.ULS.0016 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Portugal | State/province: | Centro | County: | Lisboa |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 9.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.4° North, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 82 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian | Foram zone: | Everticyclammina virguliana |
| Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Freixial | ||||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: orig. Freixial Mb. of Farta Pao Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "carbonate" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: calcareous matrix inside turtle shell | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: brackish and shallow marine | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 184944 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-03-31 10:16:53 | Last modified: | 2023-11-17 15:26:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-03-31 10:16:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 46807. | A. Pérez-García, F. Ortega, Z. Murelaga and P. Dantas. 2008. Plesiochelys sp. (Testudines, Eucryptodira) de la Fm. Freixial (Jurásico Superior) en Ulsa (Torres Vedras, Portugal). Palaeontologica Nova. SEPAZ 8:331-344 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |