ammonites
Pedrógão (Jurassic of Portugal)

Also known as Leiria

Where: Leiria, Portugal (39.9° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 2.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tabular, brown marl

• "soft grey and brownish-grey marls"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1960-1970

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: R. A. Thulborn. 1975. Teeth of ornithischian dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal, with description of a hypsilophodontid (Phyllodon henkeli gen. et sp. nov.) from the Guimarota lignite. Contribuição para o conhecimento da Fauna do Kimerridgiano da Mina de Lignito Guimarota (Leiria, Portugal). Serviços Geológicos de Portugal, Memória (Nova Série) 22:89-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69698: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 01.03.2007