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|Title: ||Dinossáurios Eocretácicos de Lagosteiros| |Authors:
||Antunes, M. T.| |Issue Date: ||10-Jul-2008| |Abstract:
||According to an ancient folkloric legend, Our Lady, stepping
down from the sea, would have rided on a mule to the platform
above the cliffs named Pedra da Mua at Lagosteiros'bay, near
Espichel cape. Mule's footprints, regarded by fishermen as
evidence, would be clearly recognizable on exposed surfaces of
the rocks. Indeed there are footprints but from Dinosaurs of
latest Jurassic, Portlandian age, this spectacular locality
being specially rich in giant Sauropod tracks (that have seldom
been found elsewhere in Europe). As we proceeded to its study,
another locality with Dinosaur footprints, Lower Cretaceous
(Hauterivian) in age, was found on the northern cliffs at
Lagosteiros. It is probably the richest