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]

## Contents

* 1 Paleofauna
* 2 Correlation
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 4.1 Bibliography
* 5 Further reading

## Paleofauna

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

## Correlation

Template:Early Cretaceous stratigraphy of Iberia

## See also

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

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Weishampel et al. 2004, pp.517-607
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Ourém at Fossilworks.org

### Bibliography

* Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN 0-520-24209-2, https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C, retrieved 2019-02-21

## 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

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