Chinguba stream, Chicapa River (Triassic of Angola)

Where: Angola (8.4° S, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.9° S, 2.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Camadas com peixes Formation (Cassange Group), Early/Lower Triassic (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• red argilites

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by F. Mouta in 1930

• Repository: Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical in Lisbon

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes, J. G. Maisey, M. M. Marques, B. Schaeffer, and K. S. Thomson. 1990. Triassic Fishes from the Cassange Depression (R. P. De Angola). Ciências da Terra (UNL), Número Especial 1-64 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 131082: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Perleididae
"Perleidus lutoensis" = Teffichthys lutoensis
"Perleidus lutoensis" = Teffichthys lutoensis Teixeira 1947
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Angolaichthys lerichei Teixeira 1947 ray-finned fish