Unidade Amoreira-Porto Novo - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Amoreira Member and Porto Novo Member (or Amoreira/Porto Novo Unit, Portuguese: Unidade Amoreira-Porto Novo) is a subdivision of the Lourinhã Formation

Lourinhã Formation

The Lourinhã Formation is a geological formation in West Portugal, named for the municipality of Lourinhã, from which a wide array of fossils comes...

, a geological formation in Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

. It dates back to the Late Jurassic

Late Jurassic

The Late Jurassic is the third epoch of the Jurassic Period, and it spans the geologic time from 161.2 ± 4.0 to 145.5 ± 4.0 million years ago , which is preserved in Upper Jurassic strata. In European lithostratigraphy, the name "Malm" indicates rocks of Late Jurassic age...

Vertebrate fauna

Dinosaur 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... s of the Unidade Amoreira-Porto Novo
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Dacentrurus Dacentrurus Dacentrurus , originally known as Omosaurus, was a large stegosaur of the Late Jurassic Period .-Description:... D. armatus Dacentrurus sp.	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal. Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
Genus: Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus Lourinhanosaurus was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur genus that lived during the Late Jurassic Period . Its first remains were found at Peralta, near Lourinhã, Portugal in 1982, but were not described until 1998, by Portuguese paleontologist Octávio Mateus.Its type species is L... L. antunesi	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
Genus: Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus Lourinhasaurus was a sauropod dinosaur genus hailing from Late Jurassic strata from two localities in Estremadura, Portugal. It was described by Dantas et al. in 1998. Its type species is L... L. alenquerensis	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal. Strata containing L. alenquerensis are also present in Distrito do Lisboa, although they may belong to the Sobral Unit.
Infraorder: Ornithopoda Indeterminate remains.	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
Infraorder: Sauropoda Sauropoda Sauropoda , or the sauropods , are an infraorder of saurischian dinosaurs. They had long necks, long tails, small heads , and thick, pillar-like legs. They are notable for the enormous sizes attained by some species, and the group includes the largest animals to have ever lived on land... Indeterminate remains.	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
Infraorder: 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 Leiria, Portugal.

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