Camadas de Guimarota
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The Camadas de Guimarota is a geological formation in Europe, and the synonym of "Camadas de Alcobaça". 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...

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Vertebrate fauna

Indeterminate allosauroid, ceratosaur, dromaeosaurid, iguanodont, and tyrannosaurid remains are known from Camadas de Guimarota strata in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal. Dinosaur eggs are also known from Camadas de Guimarota strata in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

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 Camadas de Guimarota Formation
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Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx
Archaeopteryx , sometimes referred to by its German name Urvogel , is a genus of theropod dinosaur that is closely related to birds. The name derives from the Ancient Greek meaning "ancient", and , meaning "feather" or "wing"...


Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.


Aviatyrannis
Aviatyrannis
Aviatyrannis is a genus of tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic found in Portugal. It was described by Oliver Rauhut in 2003. The name means "Jurassic grandmother tyrant"...


A. jurassica

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Bothriospondylus
Bothriospondylus
Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out...


Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Guimarota remains once tentatively attributed to Bothriospondylus
Bothriospondylus
Bothriospondylus is an dubious genus of sauropod dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic.The type species, Bothriospondylus suffossus, was described by Richard Owen in 1875. The specific epithet suffossus means "undermined" in Latin, a reference to the fact that pleurocoels had hollowed out...

are now regarded as indeterminate sauropod remains.

Compsognathus
Compsognathus
Compsognathus was a small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. The animal was the size of a turkey and lived around 150 million years ago, the early Tithonian stage of the late Jurassic Period, in what is now Europe. Paleontologists have found two well-preserved fossils, one in Germany...


Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Paronychodon
Paronychodon
Paronychodon was a theropod dinosaur genus. It is a tooth taxon, considered dubious because of the fragmentary nature of the fossils, which include "buckets" of teeth but no other remains...


Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Fossils once attributed to cf.
Cf.
cf., an abbreviation for the Latin word confer , literally meaning "bring together", is used to refer to other material or ideas which may provide similar or different information or arguments. It is mainly used in scholarly contexts, such as in academic or legal texts...

 Paronychodon
Paronychodon
Paronychodon was a theropod dinosaur genus. It is a tooth taxon, considered dubious because of the fragmentary nature of the fossils, which include "buckets" of teeth but no other remains...

sp. are now regarded as possible indeterminate troodontid remains.

Phyllodon
Phyllodon
Phyllodon was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur from the Kimmeridgian-age Upper Jurassic Guimarota Formation of Leiria, Portugal. It may have been closely related to contemporaneous dinosaurs in North America....


P. henkeli

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Fossils once tentatively attributed to Phyllodon henkeli are now regarded as indeterminate euornithopod remains.

Richardoestesia

Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.

Stokesosaurus
Stokesosaurus
Stokesosaurus is a genus of small , early tyrannosaur from the Late Jurassic period of Utah and England. It was named after Utah geologist William Lee Stokes...


Indeterminate

Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
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