Pombal, Castro (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Pembal, Pembel, Crasto, Vale de Portinheiro

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.9° N, 8.6° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 2.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alcobaça Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• "Malm"

•Lourinhã Fm is considered late Kimmeridgian-late Tithonian and it incorporates the Alcobaça Fm (Kimmeridgian) and the Bombarral Fm (also known as Grés Superiores; late Tithonian-early Berrisian). Taylor et al. 2013 suggested the Lourinhã Fm be subdivided into members, but Mateus et al. 2017 proposed a revised stratiraphy of the Luisitanian Basin. The Alcobaça Formation is Late Kimmeridigan and overlain by the Lourinha Formation. The Lourinhã Formation is made up of the Praia da Amoreira and Porto Novo (late Kimmeridgian) members, Praia Azul member (latest Kimmeridgian–earliest Tithonian) and the Assenta member (late Tithonian-earliest Berrisian). The Lourinha Formation is overlain by the Porto da Calada Formation (Berrisian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by P. Choffat, A. F. de Lapparent in the 1880s, 1940s

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H.-E. Sauvage. 1895. Les dinosauriens du terrain jurassique supérieur du Boulonnais [The dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic terrain of the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 22:465-470 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49244: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Omosaurus lennieri Nopcsa 1911 ornithischian
base of dermal spine
 Theropoda -
Megalosaurus insignis Eudes-Deslongchamps and Lennier 1870 theropod
teeth
Megalosaurus pombali n. sp. Lapparent et al. 1951 theropod
tooth