Porto Dinheiro

Porto Dinheiro (or Praia de Porto Dinheiro) is a locality in the civil parish (freguesia) of Ribamar, municipality of Lourinhã, in Portugal.

It is known as a rich fossil locality, from where were found many Late Jurassic dinosaurs and mammals. A few even received the locality name, like the Dinheirosaurus lourinhanensis and Jurassic mammals like Portopinheirodon asymmetricus and the multituberculates family Pinheirodontidae. The second one is the based for a new family of mammals, the Pinheirodontidae. An diverse ichnofauna[1] is known in that site.

This locality was once considered to be early Cretaceous in age, but it is Tithonian (Late Jurassic).

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  1. ↑ Mateus, O., & Milàn, J. (2009). A diverse Upper Jurassic dinosaur ichnofauna from central‐west Portugal. Lethaia, 43(2), 245-257.

Coordinates: 39°12′49″N 9°20′41″W / 39.2136°N 9.3447°W / 39.2136; -9.3447


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