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Bentiaba (Cretaceous of Angola)

Also known as Sao Nicolau

Where: Namibe, Angola (14.3° S, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 1.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• Middle Maastrichtian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005 - 2007

Primary reference: M. T. Antunes. 1964. O Neocretacio e o Cenozoico do litoral de Angola. Junta de Investigcoes do Ultramar 1-254 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106705: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.03.2011, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• not the same as a previous Bentiaba = San Nicolau collection reported by Antunes 1964

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unclassified
-	Mollusca spp.¹ Mollusca spp.¹ Linnaeus 1758
Gnathostomata
-	Chondrichthyes spp.¹, Osteichthyes spp.¹ Chondrichthyes spp.¹ Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish Osteichthyes spp.¹ bony fish
Reptilia
Testudines - Protostegidae	cf. Calcarichelys sp.¹, Protostega sp.¹ cf. Calcarichelys sp.¹ Zangerl 1953 sea turtle MGUAN-PA167, neural scute Protostega sp.¹ Cope 1871 sea turtle MGUAN-PA158, two humeri, three costal plates, one xiphiplastron, one peripheral plate (single animal)
Testudines -	Toxochelys sp.¹ Toxochelys sp.¹ Cope 1873 turtle MGUAN-PA168, hyoplastron, peripherals and costal plates
Testudines - Pancheloniidae	Euclastes sp.¹ Euclastes sp.¹ Cope 1870 turtle MGUAN-PA157, complete skull and mandible, cervical vertebrae, peripheral plates, forelimb
Dinosauria -	Dinosauria indet.¹ Dinosauria indet.¹ Owen 1842 dinosaur MGUAN-PA175, distal part of humerus
Neornithischia -	Hadrosauroidea indet.¹ Hadrosauroidea indet.¹ Huene 1954 bird foot dinosaur MGUAN-PA176, a single phalanx
Pterosauria -	Ornithocheiroidea indet.¹ Ornithocheiroidea indet.¹ pterosaur MGUN-PA163, left femur
Squamata - Mosasauridae	Globidens phosphaticus², Prognathodon kianda n. sp.³, Liodon sp.¹, Halisaurus sp.¹, cf. Platecarpus ptychodon¹, Phosphorosaurus sp.¹ Globidens phosphaticus² Bardet et al. 2005 mosasaur PA24 (a partial skeleton including many elements of the skull and some postcrania) and PA23 (a fragmentary skull and posterior dorsal vertebra) Prognathodon kianda n. sp.³ Schulp et al. 2008 mosasaur MGUAN-PA129 (holotype), MGUAN-PA128, MGUAN-PA149, MGUAN-PA150, MGUAN-PA151 - several specimens of different ontogenetic ages; shed teeth, isolated bones, partial skulls and skeletons Liodon sp.¹ Owen 1842 mosasaur Halisaurus sp.¹ Marsh 1869 mosasaur MGUAN-PA18, two partial skeletons including many elements of the skulls, vertebrae, ribs and limbs cf. Platecarpus ptychodon¹ mosasaur MGUAN-PA160, two partial skulls and skeletons including limb material, isolated tooth crowns [new genus not erected but required] Phosphorosaurus sp.¹ Dollo 1889 mosasaur MGUAN-PA52, isolated partial frontal
Sauropterygia - Elasmosauridae	Elasmosauridae indet.¹, cf. Tuarangisaurus sp.¹ Elasmosauridae indet.¹ Cope 1869 elasmosaur MGUAN-PA113, basicranium, and MGUAN-PA126, symphyseal region of the mandibl, various unnumbered specimens, teeth cf. Tuarangisaurus sp.¹ Wiffen and Moisley 1986 elasmosaur MGUAN-PA85, MGUAN-PA106, MGUAN-PA120, propodials, cervical and pectoral vertebrae, and pectoral and pelvic elements

¹Mateus et al. 2012; ²Polcyn et al. 2010; ³Schulp et al. 2008