Gres a Dinosauriens Formation - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Gres a Dinosauriens Formation is a geological formation in Europe whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous

Early Cretaceous

The Early Cretaceous or the Lower Cretaceous , is the earlier or lower of the two major divisions of the Cretaceous...

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of animals of the clade and superorder Dinosauria. They were the dominant terrestrial vertebrates for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period until the end of the Cretaceous , when the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event led to the extinction of...

fossil

Fossil

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...

s are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.

Vertebrate paleofauna

Ornithischians of the Gres a Dinosauriens Formation
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Iguanodon Iguanodon Iguanodon is a genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs... Iguanodon sp.	Geographically located in Distrito do Setubal, Portugal.	"(= I. mantelli)"
Genus: Titanosauriformes Indeterminate remains.	Geographically located in Distrito do Setubal, Portugal.	"(including "Astrodon Astrodon Astrodon was a genus of large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, related to Brachiosaurus, that lived in what is now the eastern United States during the Early Cretaceous period. Its fossils have been found in the Arundel Formation, which has been dated through palynomorphs to the Aptian-Albian... " valdensis)"
Suborder: Theropoda Theropoda Theropoda is both a suborder of bipedal saurischian dinosaurs, and a clade consisting of that suborder and its descendants . Dinosaurs belonging to the suborder theropoda were primarily carnivorous, although a number of theropod groups evolved herbivory, omnivory, and insectivory... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically located in Distrito do Setubal, Portugal.	"(including Megalosaurus Megalosaurus Megalosaurus is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic period of Europe... superbus)"

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