Also known as Porto Dinheiro

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo Member (Lourinhã Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• originally assigned to upper Kimmeridgian, Alcobaça Fm. of Lourinha Group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; marl and mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by supervised by S. Henkel in 1962-1967

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• a fauna of about 800 mammal teeth

Primary reference: G. Krusat. 1969. Ein Panthotheria-Molar mit dreispitzigem Talonid aus dem Kimmeridge von Portugal [A Pantotheria molar with a three-cusped talonid from the Kimmeridgian of Portugal]. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 43(1/2):52-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69708: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.03.2007, edited by Roger Benson and Richard Butler

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