Nazaré (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Also known as Nazare

Where: Leiria, Portugal (39.6° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 5.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; massive, silty mudstone

• (3) lagoonal laminated marls and mudstones with oysters and small fish remains, overlaid by massive mudstone beds on the top (middle Cenomanian, “Unit with Gyrostrea ouremensis”: 39 m). The turtle specimen studied here was found in the third (3) of these units, and collected from level 83 of the section (see Callapez et al., 2014, for level numbers), about 14 m below the lower upper Cenomanian beds with Neolobites vibrayeanus and the foraminifera Hemicyclammina sigali, Simplalveolina simplex and Thomasinella punica (Lauverjat, 1982; Hart et al., 2005) (Fig. 1D). It was found in 1996 by one of us (PMC) during the stratigraphic studies carried out in this area (Callapez, 1998)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

• DCT, Departamento de Cie^ncias da Terra da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Primary reference: A. Pérez-García, M. T. Antunes, F. Barroso-Barcenilla, P. M. Callapez, M. Segura, A. F. Soares, and A. Torices. 2017. A bothremydid from the middle Cenomanian of Portugal identified as one of the oldest pleurodiran turtles in Laurasia. Cretaceous Research 78:61-70 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186171: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.06.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Algorachelus peregrinus
Algorachelus peregrinus Pérez-García 2017 sideneck turtle
DCT-NZV30, a partial and undeformed shell, preserving most of its carapace except the left and posterior areas and the partial plastron
 Loricata -
Crocodyliformes indet.
Crocodyliformes indet. crocodilian
Identified as a possible dyrosaurid by Buffetaut and Lauverjat (1978)