Praia Azul (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Turtle locality

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.1° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Pérez-García. 2015. Revision of the British record of Tropidemys (Testudines, Plesiochelyidae) and recognition of its presence in the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Iberian Geology 41(1):11-20 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167730: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 30.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Tropidemys sp. Rütimeyer 1873 turtle
SHN.LPP 173, a fragment of the medial area of a carapace