O registo fóssil de vertebrados continentais de Pombal: contributo para o conhecimento das faunas do Jurássico Superior da Bacia Lusitaniana

ABSTRACT: The presence of dinosaur remains is known in the region of Pombal since the end of the 19th century. The Andrés fossil site is one of the most significant paleontological localities currently known in this region, having yielded an unusually rich and diverse assemblage of vertebrates, including actinopterygians, lepidosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, dinosaurs (ornithopods, sauropods and theropods), and mammals. In the last decades, the discovery of other localities with remarkable record of dinosaurs, especially sauropods, underlain the importance of this region for better understanding the continental faunas that inhabited this sector of the Lusitanian Basin during the Late Jurassic. This fossil record is particularly relevant for testing the possible existence of paleoenvironmental constrains in the distribution of some vertebrate taxa in different areas of the basin.