Re: The dinosaur Torvosaurus in Portugal

["Octavio Mateus" <museulourinha@mail.telepac.pt>]

    Guimarota is around 70 Km  NE of Lourinhã. You can see the localisation
of Lourinhã in the geological map at
http://homepage.altavista.com/lourinhanosaurus/Map.html (the blue in the map
is the Jurassic).
     Guimarota gave a lot of small material including mammals being one of
the most important place for Jurassic mammals. Dinosaur remains are mainly
known by teeth. Guimarota was a coal mine not in use nowadays.
    Apart of small stuff, Lourinhã gives big bones of dinosaurs in
(semi)articulation with conventional excavations.

                 Octávio Mateus

GEAL- Museu da Lourinhã
Rua João Luis de Moura
2530-157- Lourinhã, PORTUGAL
Tel: (+351)  261 413 995 (Museu)
Email: omateus@n2dinosaurs.com
Lourinhanosaurus webpage at http://run.to/dinosaurs
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De: HPB1956@aol.com <HPB1956@aol.com>
Para: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: HPB@bdal.de <HPB@bdal.de>
Data: Sábado, 14 de Outubro de 2000 17:22
Assunto: Re: The dinosaur Torvosaurus in Portugal


>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.