Where: Portugal (38.4° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 1.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Papo Seco Formation, Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• 2.50m
•originally the "Grès à Dinosauriens"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, lenticular, fine-grained sandstone and lithified, gypsiferous, green, carbonaceous siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 73351: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 13.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Astrodon valdensis" = Pleurocoelus valdensis
"Astrodon valdensis" = Pleurocoelus valdensis Lydekker 1889 sauropod | |
"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus
"Iguanodon mantelli" = Iguanodon anglicus Holl 1829 ornithopod | |
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus
"Megalosaurus superbus" = Erectopus superbus Sauvage 1882 allosauroid | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster |