Re: The dinosaur Torvosaurus in Portugal

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Jaime A. Headden wrote on October 14, 2000:

>   Yet Lourinha looks more and more like the Morrison as we speak!

>  So far, there are two diplodocids, two allosaurids (one of which is a
>possible new species of *Allosaurus*), a slightly indeterminate species
> of *Ceratosaurus,* and a *Torvosaurus* sp.

There's another fossil site in Portugal dated Kimmeridgian, it's the 
Guimarota locality.
You may say that Lourinha ressembles the Morrison and Guimarota ressembles 
Solnhofen.

BTW: How far apart in kilometers are these sites, which seems so different in 
their mix of genera?

Cheers

Heinz Peter Bredow


Adam Yate wrote November 12, 1998:

> Anyway Jens Zinke describes the theropod fauna from the Guimarota
> microvertebrate locality in Portugal.It is dated as early Kimmeridgian so it
> is pre - Solnhofen (just).  Only teeth are known but they include
> Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus,a velociraptorine, a dromaeosaurine,a probable
> troodontid, a probable tyrranosaurid, a probable allosaurid and something
> akin to Richardoestia.