Calcários Micríticos da Serra de Aire explained

Calcários Micríticos da Serra de Aire
Type:	Geological formation
Age:	Bathonian ~
Period:	Bathonian
Prilithology:	Micritic limestone
Otherlithology:	Pyrite
Namedfor:	Serra de Aire
Region:	Santarém
Coordinates:	39.6°N -8.6°W
Paleocoordinates:	32.6°N 2.9°W
Extent:	Lusitanian Basin

The Calcários Micríticos da Serra de Aire is a Bathonian geologic formation in Portugal. Fossil sauropod tracks have been reported from the formation.^[1]

Fossil content

• Megalosauripus sp.
• Sauropoda indet.

See also

• Pegadas de Dinossáurios da Serra de Aire Natural Monument
• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with sauropodomorph tracks
    • Sauropod tracks

References

Bibliography

• V. F. Santos, J. J. Moratalla, and R. Royo-Torres. 2009. New sauropod trackways from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(3):409-422
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. 
• V. F. dos Santos, M. G. Lockley, C. A. Meyer, J. Carvalho, A. M. Galopim Carvalho and J. J. Moratalla. 1995. A new sauropod tracksite from the Middle Jurassic of Portugal. In M. G. Lockley, V. F. dos Santos, C. A. Meyer, & A. P. Hunt (eds.), Aspects of Sauropod Paleobiology. GAIA 10:5-13

Notes and References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.