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; -8.6
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]

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

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

• 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

• 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

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