Viso railway trench: Maastrichtian, Portugal
collected by H.-E. Sauvage

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Dealquia sp.
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
    = Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
Galton 1994 2 specimens
MGSP R, S
? Ceratopsia indet. Marsh 1890
Galton 1994 1 specimen
Antunes & Pais 1978
Reptilia - Theropoda
Tyrannosauridae indet. Osborn 1906
Antunes and Sigogneau-Russell 1991 2 specimens
    = Theropoda informal indet. A Marsh 1881
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
VI 1-2
Reptilia
Pterosauria indet. Kaup 1834
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957 2 specimens
MGSP P, Q
    = Maniraptora indet. Gauthier 1986
Galton 1994
Megalosauria indet.
6 specimens
    = Megalosaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
Sauvage 1898
    = Megalosaurus cf. pannoniensis Seeley 1881
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
MGSP T-W, VI 3
    = aff. Megalosauridae informal indet. A Fitzinger 1843
Antunes and Sigogneau 1992
    = Maniraptora indet. Gauthier 1986
Galton 1994
Crocodilus blavieri Gray 1831
nomen dubium belonging to Crocodyliformes
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
"fresh-water turtle"
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Actinopteri - Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Clupea arezedi n. sp. Sauvage 1898
Sauvage 1898
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Clastes pustulosus n. sp. Sauvage 1898
Sauvage 1898
Clastes lusitanicus n. sp. Sauvage 1898
Sauvage 1898
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Microdon sp. Agassiz 1833
Sauvage 1898
replaced by Polypsephis
unclassified
Cycadophyta indet. Bessey 1907
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
Quercus sp. Linnaeus 1753
Lapparent and Zbyszewski 1957
"3 or 4 species"
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal State/province:Coimbra
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 8.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 8.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:35 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Argilas de Aveiro
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,gray,green carbonaceous claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "clear-gray clays with green parts, containing nodules of brown marl, small pieces of coal, small quartzite pebbles, coprolites and numerous partly worn, partly well-preserved bones."
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:H.-E. Sauvage
Metadata
Also known as:Vizo, Arazède
Database number:49228
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-04-11 13:47:50 Last modified:2022-03-08 15:09:35
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-11 13:47:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
42902. H.-E. Sauvage. 1898. Les Reptiles et les Poissons des terrains Mésozoïques du Portugal [The reptiles and fishes from the Mesozoic terrains of Portugal]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 26:442-446 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36720ETE M. T. Antunes. 1998. Dinossauros e Portugal: dois cases menos conhecidos [Dinosaurs and Portugal: two less known cases]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33934ETE M. T. Antunes. 1999. Dinossauros e Portugal: Dois casos menos conhecidos. Ciencias de Terra 13:59-69 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
25630ETE M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau. 1992. La faune des petits dinosaures du Crétacé terminal portugais [The small dinosaur fauna from the Portuguese terminal Cretaceous]. Comunicações dos Serviços Geológicos de Portugal 78(1):49-62 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25628ETE M. T. Antunes and D. Sigogneau-Russell. 1991. Nouvelles données sur les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur du Portugal [New data on the dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Portugal]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences à Paris, Série II 313:113-119 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
25579ETE P. M. Galton. 1994. Notes on Dinosauria and Pterodactylia from the Cretaceous of Portugal. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 194(2/3):253-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
80599 E. Isasmendi, A. Torices, J. I. Canudo, P. J. Currie, and X. Pereda-Suberbiola. 2022. Upper Cretaceous European theropod palaeobiodiversity, palaeobiogeography and the intra‐Maastrichtian faunal turnover: new contributions from the Iberian fossil site of Laño. Papers in Palaeontology 8(1):e1419:1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13143ETE A. F. d. Lapparent and G. Zbyszewski. 1957. Les dinosauriens du Portugal [The dinosaurs of Portugal]. Mémoires des Services Géologiques du Portugal, nouvelle série 2:1-63 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36728ETE J. Le Loeuff. 1998. Les dinosaures du Crétacé supérieur de l'Île Ibéro-Armoricaine [The dinosaurs of the Upper Cretaceous of the Ibero-Armorican Island]. In A. M. G. de Carvalho, A. M. Andrade, V. F. dos Santos, J. Cascalho, R. Taborda, (eds.), I Encontro Internacional sobre Paleobiologia dos Dinossáurios. Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisboa 49-64 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
7842 J. Le Loeuff and E. Buffetaut. 1991. Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., dinosaure théropode du Crétacé supérieur du sud de la France [Tarascosaurus salluvicus nov. gen., nov. sp., a theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of southern France]. Géobios 25(5):585-594 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
63601 H.-E. Sauvage. 1898. Vertébrés Fossiles du Portugal. Contributions à l’Étude des Poissons et des Reptiles du Jurassique et du Crétacique [Fossil Vertebrates of Portugal. Contributions to the Study of the Fishes and Reptiles of the Jurassic and Cretaceous] 1-46 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/M. Carrano]