Casal da Pedreira (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Canal du Pedreira, Lourinha

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

• "upper Upper Kimmeridgian to lower Lower Tithonian"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1950s

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1951. Découverte d'une riche faune de Reptiles Dinosauriens dans le Jurassique supérieur du Portugal [Discovery of a rich fauna of dinosaurian reptiles in the Upper Jurassic of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris 233:1125-1127 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 47429: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.02.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
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Astrodon pusillus n. sp. Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 dinosaur
MSGP F (femur, ? calcaneum, pubis, MT, MC, ungual, posterior dorsal, anterior sacral, radius, 2 sacral ribs, caudal centrum)