ammonites
Cabo Espichel tracksite (level 1) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (39.4° N, 9.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 1.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (150.8 - 145.5 Ma)

• Upper Portlandian or Portlandian B

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: bioturbated wackestone

• "shallow water carbonates"; "strongly bioturbated wackestone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1992-1993

Primary reference: M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, and V. F. Santos. 1995. Trackway evidence for a herd of juvenile sauropods from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:27-35 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55750: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 03.11.2005, edited by Matt Carrano