"Cerâmica do Mondego" quarry, Taveiro: Maastrichtian, Portugal
collected by M. T. Antunes & G. Manuppella 1968-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
Selachii indet.
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
Actinopteri - Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amia sp. Linnaeus 1766
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Mammalia - Pediomyidae
aff. Pediomys sp. Marsh 1889
Antunes et al. 1986 1 specimen
TV3
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
aff. Alphadon sp. Simpson 1927
Antunes et al. 1986 2 specimens
TV1, 2
Mammalia
? Palaeoryctidae indet. Winge 1917
1 specimen
TV5
    = Placentalia indet. Owen 1837
Antunes et al. 1986
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
aff. Leptacodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1921
Antunes et al. 1986 1 specimen
TV4
Mammalia - Symmetrodonta
? Symmetrodonta indet. Simpson 1925
Reptilia - Testudines
Rosasia cf. soutoi Carrington da Costa 1940
Reptilia - Pterosauria
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Reptilia
? Ceratopsidae indet. Marsh 1888
10 specimens
TV 6-11, 13-16
    = Taveirosaurus costai n. gen., n. sp. Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
nomen dubium belonging to Thyreophora
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 3 specimens
TV 35, 39, 40
Saurischia indet. Seeley 1888
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991 1 specimen
    = Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
TV 17
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991 4 specimens
    = Theropoda informal indet. A Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
TV 27, 37, 46, 50
Theropoda informal indet. B Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 5 specimens
TV 31, 51, 54, 56, 57
Reptilia
Megalosaurus pannoniensis Seeley 1881
4 specimens
    = Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
    = aff. Megalosauridae informal indet. B Fitzinger 1843
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
TV 36, 41, 42, 49
    = Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986
Carrano et al. 2012
Reptilia - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991 2 specimens
    = cf. Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
TV 43, 52
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
cf. Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 1 specimen
TV 47
Reptilia
Euronychodon portucalensis n. gen., n. sp. Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991 3 specimens
synonym of Paronychodon
TV 18-20
Reptilia - Coeluridae
aff. Coeluridae informal indet. A Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 5 specimens
TV 24, 28-30, 48
aff. Coeluridae informal indet. B Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 3 specimens
TV 22, 23, 26
aff. Coeluridae informal indet. C Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992 3 specimens
TV 25, 44, 45
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
small species
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Mesosuchia indet. Huxley 1875
"nov. gen. nov. sp. (= Crocodylus blavieri in Sauvage)"
    = Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875
Puértolas-Pascual et al. 2016
Sauria indet. (MacCartney 1802)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Urodela indet. (Duméril 1805)
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Coimbra
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 8.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 7.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:12 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argilas de Aveiro
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed TV 18
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandy conglomerate
Secondary lithology:gray lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "sandy conglomerate, marly limestone, grayish"
Environment:coarse channel fill
Geology comments: "fluviatile"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:2000 kg
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:M. T. Antunes & G. Manuppella Collection dates:1968-
Metadata
Database number:49276
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-12 11:06:15 Last modified:2022-03-08 15:08:42
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-12 11:06:15
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
70676. M. T. Antunes and J. Pais. 1978. Notas sobre depositos de Taveiro: estratigrafia, p aleontologia, idade, paleoecologia [Notes on the Taveiro deposits: stratigraphy, paleontology, age, paleoecology]. Ciências da Terra 4:108-128 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36720ETE M. T. Antunes. 1998. Dinossauros e Portugal: dois cases menos conhecidos [Dinosaurs and Portugal: two less known cases]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33934ETE M. T. Antunes. 1999. Dinossauros e Portugal: Dois casos menos conhecidos. Ciencias de Terra 13:59-69 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
13162ETE M. T. Antunes and O. Mateus. 2003. Dinosaurs of Portugal. Comptes Rendus Palevol 2:77-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25630ETE M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau. 1992. La faune des petits dinosaures du Crétacé terminal portugais [The small dinosaur fauna from the Portuguese terminal Cretaceous]. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 78(1):49-62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29886ETE M. T. Antunes, D. Sigogneau-Russell, and D. E. Russell. 1986. Sur quelques dents de Mammifères du Crétacé supérieur de Taveiro, Portugal (Note préliminaire) [On several mammal teeth from the Upper Cretaceous of Taveiro, Portugal (preliminary note)]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 303(13):1247-1250 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/R. Benson]
25628ETE M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 1991. Nouvelles données sur les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Portugal [New data on the dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 313:113-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
41617 M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599 E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36728ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
76284 E. Puértolas-Pascual, A. Blanco, C. A. Brochu and J. I. Canudo. 2016. Review of the Late Cretaceous-early Paleogene crocodylomorphs of Europe: Extinction patterns across the K-PG boundary. Cretaceous Research 57:565-590 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]