Bololo, Bas-Congo (Eocene of Congo-Kinshasa)

Where: Congo-Kinshasa (5.7° S, 12.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.6° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• no information given

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Secretan. 1970. Crustaces decapodes du Bas-Congo et de l'enclave de Cabinda [Decapod crustaceans from Bas-Congo and Cabinda). Annalen Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika, Geologische Wetenschappen 68:79-89 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72299: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa pustulata Withers 1926 decapod
subsp. africana
Callianassa congolae n. sp. Secretan 1970 decapod
Callianassa depressiva n. sp. Secretan 1970 decapod