Vale Furado (Eocene to of Portugal)

Where: Nazaré, Portugal (39.7° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 11.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Feligueira Grande Formation), Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 38.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained, brown, gray, yellow sandstone

• Coarse sandstone - yellowish-brown to gray spots in places

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Antonio Goncalves Rodrigues in 1963

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes. 1975. Iberosuchus, crocodile Sebecosuchien nouveau, l’Eocène ibérique au nord de la Chaîne central, et l’origine du canyon de Nazare. Comunicaçoes dos Servicos Geologicos de Portugal 59:285-330 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153778: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Iberosuchus macrodon n. gen. n. sp.
Iberosuchus macrodon n. gen. n. sp. Antunes 1975 crocodilian
MG - holotype (anterior portion of skull)