Landana cliffs (layer 8) (Paleocene of Angola)

Also known as Congosaurus bequaerti type locality

Where: Cabinda, Angola (5.6° S, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 3.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Landana Formation, Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)

• bed ("couche") no. 8

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy, calcareous sandstone and lithified shale

• Sediments mainly consist of calcareous sandstones, marly shales, conglomerates and, near the top, silicified limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Bequaert in 1913

Primary reference: R. C. Wood. 1973. Fossil marine turtle remains from the Paleocene of the Congo. Annales du Musee Royal d'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Geologiques 75:1-28 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 113759: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.08.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Toxochelyidae indet.
Toxochelyidae indet. Baur 1895 sea turtle
MRAC 4796, 3090
 Loricata - Dyrosauridae
Congosaurus bequaerti n. gen. n. sp.
Congosaurus bequaerti n. gen. n. sp. Dollo 1914 crocodilian
holotype (MRAC 1741-1743, 1745, 1796, 1797, 1802, 1803, 1806, 1809-1811, 1813-1819, 1823, 1828, 1839, 1852, 1854, 1870, 1871, 1887, 1894 and 1895)