Describer

Dantas, Sanz, Da Silva, Ortega, Dos Santos & Cachao, 1998

Time

Jurassic Late Kimmeridgian Tithonian

Classification

Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda

Diet

Herbivore

Fossilsite

Lourinha, Portugal

Info

Genus - Typespecies

[Lourinhasaurus] (Lapparent and Zbyszewski, 1957) > Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis (Dantas, Sanz, Da Silva, Ortega, Dos Santos & Cachao, 1998) > Apatosaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957) > Camarasaurus alenquerensis (Lapparent & Zbyszewski, 1957)

Elements

Postcranials of several individuals (MIGM).

Localities

The major find is a partial skeleton from Moinho do Carmo, near Alenquer. Other localities are São Bernardino, Areia Branca, Porto das Barcas, Salir de Matos, Alcobaça, Praia de Santa Cruz, Chiqueda de Cima, Vale Frades, Foz do Arelho São Mamede, Torres Vedras, and Ourém (MIGM).

Age

Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian to Tithonian.

Comments

First named by Lapparent and Zbyszewski as Apatosaurus alenquerensis, it was interpreted as Camarasaurus alenquerensis by McIntosh and later renamed Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis. Because a holotype was never assigned, a lectotype is here determined as Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis, the specimen from Moinho do Carmo (MIGM 4956-7, 4970, 4975, 4979-80, 4983-4 and 5780-1). This specimen comprises cervical, dorsal, sacral, and caudal vertebrae, cervical and dorsal ribs, scapulae, coracoids, humerus, ulna, radius, carpals, one metacarpal (?), one manus phalanx, ilium, pubis, ischium, femur, tibia, fibula, astragalus and calcaneum [21]. Despite all the different numbers, all the bones are from only one individual.

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