Caranguejeira Conglomerate

Caranguejeira Conglomerate Stratigraphic range: Aptian-Cenomanian
Type	Geological formation
Lithology
Primary	Conglomerate
Location
Coordinates	39°42′N 8°36′W / 39.7°N 8.6°W / 39.7; -8.6Coordinates: 39°42′N 8°36′W / 39.7°N 8.6°W / 39.7; -8.6
Approximate paleocoordinates	29°36′N 1°54′W / 29.6°N 1.9°W / 29.6; -1.9
Region	Santarém
Country	Portugal
Extent	Lusitanian Basin
Caranguejeira Conglomerate (Portugal)

The Caranguejeira Conglomerate (Portuguese: Conglomerados de Caranguejeira) is an Aptian to Cenomanian geologic formation in Portugal. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.^[1]

Paleofauna[]

• Duriatitan humerocristatus^[2]
• Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis^[2]
• Megalosaurus insignis^[2]
• Morosaurus marchei (theropod indet.)^[2]
• Pelorosaurus humerocristatus (sauropod indet.)^[1]

Correlation[]

Early Cretaceous stratigraphy of Iberia

Ma	Age	Paleomap \ Basins		Olanyà								Lusitanian
100	Cenomanian											Caranguejeira
125	Albian		-
			Monte Grande		Escucha		Escucha
			-
	Aptian		-		- Castrillo
					En Gp. -	Morella/			Morella
			-		En Gp. -	Forcall					Upper Bedoulian
	Barremian					Xert	Alacón	Xert		Huérguina
						Artoles				Collado		Papo Seco
				Rúbies	Tera Gp. -	Alacón/Blesa	Blesa	Camarillas
150	Hauterivian				Ur Gp. -			Castellar	Tera Gp. -
							hiatus
	Valanginian				Ur Gp. -				-
					-				- Piedrahita
	Berriasian		-			hiatus
					- Rupelo			Arzobispo	hiatus
					On Gp. -
	Tithonian		Lastres		Tera Gp. -		Higuereles			Tera Gp. -		Lourinhã
									Arzobispo
Legend		Major fossiliferous, oofossiliferous, ichnofossiliferous, coproliferous, minor formation
Sources

See also[]

• List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
  • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21.ISBN 0-520-24209-2

Further reading[]

• H.-E. Sauvage. 1895. Les dinosauriens du terrain jurassique supérieur du Boulonnais [The dinosaurs from the Upper Jurassic terrain of the Boulonnais]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 22:465-470