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Ichnology of the Quaternary eolianites from the Iberian Peninsula

In the last years, 14 Pleistocene vertebrate ichnological sites in Portugal and five sites in Southwest Spain (3) and Gibraltar (2) were found and described under this thesis project. The first ichnological record of vertebrates in the Cenozoic of Portugal includes large footprints of the red deer Cervus elaphus found in Pessegueiro islet. An ichnotaxonomic review of the Quaternary sites worldwide allowed the d...

Geoconservation in the Cabeço da Ladeira Paleontological Site (Serras de Aire e...

The Cabeço da Ladeira paleontological site in central Portugal became known as the “Jurassic Beach”. Formerly an active quarry, the site was protected in order to preserve the large exposures of a Middle Jurassic (early? Bajocian) carbonate tidal flat with an outstanding fossil record. This multidisciplinary paleontological work involving experts from several national and international research and geoconservat...

Geoconservation in the Cabeço da Ladeira Paleontological Site (Serras de Aire e...

The Cabeço da Ladeira paleontological site in central Portugal became known as the “Jurassic Beach”. Formerly an active quarry, the site was protected in order to preserve the large exposures of a Middle Jurassic (early? Bajocian) carbonate tidal flat with an outstanding fossil record. This multidisciplinary paleontological work involving experts from several national and international research and geoconservat...

The reversely zoned Castelo Branco pluton at the New “Barrocal” city Park (Cent...

The "Barrocal" city Park of Castelo Branco is an urban park developed to protect the geoheritage of the tardi-Variscan granite landscapes of the only city existing in the area of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark. The "Barrocal" Granite is part of a Late Carboniferous unusual reversely zone intrusion with a granodiorite core and different granites in the rim. The weathering processes developed many textbook e...

A look at Proença-a-Nova’s Megalithism (Beira Baixa Intermunicipal Community, U...

Knowledge about funerary Megalithism at Proença-a-Nova’s municipality area was present through 95 records in the inventory organized by Georg and Vera Leisner, but these researchers hadn’t the opportunity to further develop their study. The AEAT – Associação de Estudos do Alto Tejo started in the 1970’s a project of systematic field recognition, which, until this date, allowed the identification of almost thirt...

The megalithic tombs of Proença-a-Nova

Running crabs, walking crinoids, grazing gastropods: behavioral diversity and e...

Ichnology is a powerful tool for understanding the evolutionary paths of animal clades, through the paleobiology of behavior preserved in Lagerstätten such as the Cabeço da Ladeira (Portugal) site. Here, the peritidal carbonates of the Chão das Pias Formation (Middle Jurassic, upper Bajocian) record the development of microbial mats in a tidal flat. Episodically, the flat was expanded during periods of equinoct...