Montejunto Formation

Montejunto Formation
Stratigraphic range: Oxfordian
Type	Geological formation
Underlies	Alcobaça Formation
Lithology
Primary	Limestone
Other	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	39°30′N9°12′W / 39.5°N 9.2°W / 39.5; -9.2
Approximate paleocoordinates	33°42′N1°36′E / 33.7°N 1.6°E / 33.7; 1.6
Country	Portugal
Extent	Lusitanian Basin
Montejunto Formation (Portugal)

The Montejunto Formation is an Oxfordian geologic formation in Portugal. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. ^[1]

Fossil content

• ?Megalosaurus insignis (Tetanurae indet.)

See also

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

References

1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.

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 , retrieved 2019-02-21