Unidade Sobral - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Sobral Unit or Sobral Member 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 Sobral
Taxa	Presence	Notes	Images
Genus: Dacentrurus Dacentrurus Dacentrurus , originally known as Omosaurus, was a large stegosaur of the Late Jurassic Period .-Description:... D. armatus	Geographically located in Distrito do Leiria, Portugal.
Family: Dryosauridae Dryosauridae Dryosaurids were primitive iguanodonts. They are known from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous rocks of Africa, Europe, and North America.-Phylogeny:... Possible indeterminate dryosaurid remains.	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 Lisboa, Portugal.	The strata containing these remains may actually belong to the Amoreira-Porto Novo Members.
Genus: Miragaia Miragaia (dinosaur) Miragaia is a genus of stegosaurid dinosaur. Its fossils have been found in Upper Jurassic rocks in Portugal... M. longicollum	Stratigraphically present in the Miragaia Unit.

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