São Pedro da Cadeira, Praia de Cambelas: Middle Tithonian - Late/Upper Tithonian, Portugal
collected by A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski, E. Malafaia et al. 1940, 2000

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Suchoolithus portucalensis
Russo et al. 2017
Krokolithidae
Reptilia - Camptosauridae
Camptosaurus sp. Marsh 1885
Galton 1980 1 specimen
femur
    = Draconyx loureiroi Mateus and Antunes 2001
Mateus and Antunes 2001
    = Camptosauridae indet. Marsh 1885
Galton 2009
Reptilia
Allosaurus fragilis Marsh 1877
Malafaia et al. 2009 1 individual
ALT-SHN.0019 (= SHN.019), partial skeleton
    = Carcharodontosauria indet. Benson et al. 2010
Malafaia et al. 2019
    = Lusovenator santosi Malafaia et al. 2020
Malafaia et al. 2020
Brachiosaurus atalaiensis Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
1 specimen
MG collections (middle caudal centrum)
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Mannion et al. 2013
Turiasauria indet. Royo-Torres et al. 2006
Ortega et al. 2010 1 specimen
tooth
Reptilia - Diplodocidae
Diplodocidae indet. Marsh 1884
Mocho et al. 2014 1 individual
SHN (JJS) 178
Reptilia - Krokolithidae
Krokolithes dinophilus
Russo et al. 2017
Krokolithidae
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
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: sandstone
Secondary lithology:paleosol/pedogenic,brown,red mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The predominant lithology of the area corresponds to an association of sandstones with laminar geometry, pelites, and conglomerates that represent the fill of paleochannels."
Environment:delta plain
Geology comments: delta plain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:A. Lapparent & G. Zbyszewski, E. Malafaia et al. Collection dates:1940s, 2000s
Metadata
Also known as:Torres Vedras, TVSPC 12
Database number:49248
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Uhen Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Smith
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 06:53:44 Last modified:2023-11-17 15:26:16
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-12 06:53:44
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:

13162ETE M. T. Antunes and O. Mateus. 2003. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:77-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
12666ETE P. M. Galton. 1980. European Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs of the families Hypsilophodontidae and Camptosauridae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 160(1):73-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31500 P. M. Galton. 2009. Notes on Neocomian (Lower Cretaceous) ornithopod dinosaurs from England - Hypsilophodon, Valdosaurus, "Camptosaurus", "Iguanodon" - and referred specimens from Romania and elsewhere. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 28(1):211-273 [R. Butler/R. Butler]
77593 E. Malafaia, P. Mocho, F. Escaso, P. Dantas, and F. Ortega. 2019. Carcharodontosaurian remains (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Paleontology 93(1):157-172 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
73366 E. Malafaia, P. Mocho, F. Escaso and F. Ortega. 2020. A new carcharodontosaurian theropod from the Lusitanian Basin: evidence of allosauroid sympatry in the European Late Jurassic. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(1):e1768106:1-8 [E. Dunne/E. Dunne/M. Carrano]
62028 E. Malafaia, F. Ortega, F. Escaso, B. Silva, G. Ramaheiro, P. Dantas, C. Moniz and F. Barriga. 2009. Análisis preliminar de un nuevo ejemplar de Allosaurus del Grupo Lourinhã (Jurásico Superior de Torres Vedras, Portugal) [A preliminary account of a new Allosaurus individual from the Lourinhã Group (Upper Jurassic of Torres Vedras, Portugal)]. Actas de las IV Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontología de Dinosaurios y su Entorno. Salas de los Infantes, Burgos Actas:243-251 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
13154ETE O. Mateus and M. T. Antunes. 2001. Draconyx loureiroi, a new camptosauridae (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda) from the Late Jurassic of Lourinhã, Portugal. Annales de Paléontologie 87(1):61-73 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
70574 P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, and F. Ortega. 2014. A preliminary evaluation of Diplodocidae record from the Upper Jurassic of Lusitanian Basin (W, Portugal). In I. Pereira, F. Amaral, & A. Vinhas (eds.), IV Congresso Jovens Investigadores em Geociências, LEG 2014, Pólo de Estremoz da Universidade de Évora. Livro de Actas 85-88 [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]
76801 F. Ortega, R. Royo Torres, F. Gascó, F. Escaso, and J. L. Sanz. 2010. New evidences of the sauropod Turiasaurus from the Portuguese Upper Jurassic. 8th Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Abstract Volume 62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63933 J. Russo, O. Mateus, M. Marzola and A. Balbino. 2017. Two new ootaxa from the late Jurassic: The oldest record of crocodylomorph eggs, from the Lourinhã Formation, Portugal. PLOS one [M. Uhen/M. Smith]