Atouguia da Baleia

Atouguia da Baleia
Atouguia da Baleia
	Civil parish
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	Atouguia da Baleia Location in Portugal
	Coordinates: 39.337°N 9.325°W
Country	Portugal
Region	Centro
Intermunic. comm.	Oeste
District	Leiria
Municipality	Peniche
Area
• Total	47.02 km2 (18.15 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	8,954
• Density	190/km2 (490/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC±00:00 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+01:00 (WEST)

Atouguia da Baleia is a parish in the municipality of Peniche, in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,954,[1] in an area of 47.02 km².[2] The village of Atouguia da Baleia proper has almost 2,000 residents.

The geology of Atouguia da Baleia is Late Jurassic Lourinhã Fm., where the dinosaur Miragaia longicollum was found.[3]

References

Instituto Nacional de Estatística
"Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.
Costa, Francisco; Mateus, Octávio (13 November 2019). "Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America". PLOS ONE. 14 (11). e0224263. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0224263.

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[ine-1] Instituto Nacional de Estatística

[dgt-2] "Áreas das freguesias, concelhos, distritos e país". Archived from the original on 2018-11-05. Retrieved 2018-11-05.

[3] Costa, Francisco; Mateus, Octávio (13 November 2019). "Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America". PLOS ONE. 14 (11). e0224263. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0224263.