A new dinosaur tracksite in the Vale de Meios quarry (Serra de Aire Formation, Bathonian, Portugal)preserves more than 700 theropod tracks. They are organized in at least 80 unidirectional trackways arranged in a bimodal orientation pattern (W/NW and E/SE). Quantitative and qualitative comparisons reveal that the large tridactyl, elongated and asymmetric tracks resemble the typical Late Jurassi...

*Correspondence: Fabien Knoll, Departamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain e-mail: [email protected] The “stipites” are Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) coals that formed in an everglades-like environment and are now exposed in the Grands Causses (southern France). The vertebra...

Palynostratigraphy and palynofacies analyses are applied to identify transgressive-regressive sequences changes in paleoenvironment through the Middle Jurassic–Early Cretaceous succession of Ramså Basin on Andøya. The conglomerate, succeeding lacustrine-swamp deposits Hestberget Kullgrøfta members (Ramså Formation) overlying terrestrial marginal marine lower Bonteigen Member Formation), compris...

Five karstification phases are recognized and analysed in the Mesozoic carbonate sequences of the External and Internal Subbetic (Betic Cordilleras, southern Spain). These phases are related to important stratigraphic discontinuities in the following ages: (1) Intra-Carixian, (2) Early–Middle Jurassic boundary, (3) late Bathonian–early Callovian, (4) Intra-Kimmeridgian, and (6) late Albian. The...