ammonites
Praia da Salema trackway (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Also known as Salema beach

Where: Portugal (37.1° N, 8.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.5 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by C. Coke in 1995

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• discovered by Carlos Coke (UTAD)

Primary reference: V. F. dos Santos. 1998. Dinosaur tracksites in Portugal: the Jurassic-Cretaceous record. 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 7-16 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49279: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 12.04.2005