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- Palaeontological content and palaeodepositional interpretation of the Upper Jurassic Alcobaça Formation at Gralha beach (São Martinho do Porto, Portugal)Publication . Barros, Diogo; Pimentel, N.; Magalhães, AntonioABSTRACT: This work aims to carry out a paleontological description of an outcropping Upper Jurassic 65 meters thick sedimentary succession at Gralha Beach, North of São Martinho do Porto in the Lusitanian Basin, that includes mainly reddish to yellowish fine-grained siliciclastics and some interbedded marly layers belonging to the Alcobaça Formation. Detailed facies classification and palaeontological analysis (Micropalaeontology and Ichnology), integrated with Petrography, Calcimetry and X-Ray Diffraction, showed a high-frequency cyclicity and pointed to a deposition in low to very - low energy shallow marine conditions, in a gently dipping, oligotrophic open lagoon linked to a muddy coastal wetland area. This is corroborated by the characteristics of microfossils (calcareous nannofossils, Foraminifera, Ostracoda and Charophyta), Bivalvia, Gastropoda and Echinoderma fragments, Thalassinoides, Ophiomorpha and Rhizocorallium.