ammonites
Porto Pinheiro, Lourinha (Jurassic to of Portugal)

Also known as Porto Dinheiro

Where: Lisboa, Portugal (39.2° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Alcobaça Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• originally assigned to upper Kimmeridgian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; marl and mudstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by supervised by S. Henkel in 1962-1967

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

• a fauna of about 800 mammal teeth

Primary reference: G. Krusat. 1969. Ein Panthotheria-Molar mit dreispitzigem Talonid aus dem Kimmeridge von Portugal [A Pantotheria molar with a three-cusped talonid from the Kimmeridgian of Portugal]. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 43(1/2):52-56 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69708: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 02.03.2007, edited by Roger Benson and Richard Butler