Sinda-Mohari crocodilians (Pliocene of Congo-Kinshasa)

Also known as Sinda Mohari

Where: Orientale, Congo-Kinshasa (1.2° N, 30.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 29.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sinda Beds Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Those sites are currently identified as being located in Early Pliocene levels (Werdelin, 2010), previously identified as Late Miocene - Early Pliocene.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Ishida in 1989-1990

Primary reference: R. Aoki. 1992. Fossil crocodilians from the late Tertiary strata in the Sinda Basin, eastern Zaire. African Study Monographs 17:67-85 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149168: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 30.07.2013, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Carettochelyinae indet.1
SN-074 (site 3); Plate 4; right 10th peripheral plate
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet.1 Gray 1825 softshell turtle
SN-018 (site 1); Plate 5-3; pleural SN-093 (site 15); Plate 5-1; neural plate SN-Oll (site 3); Plate 5-4; pleural SN-006 (site 1); Plate 5-2; two pleurals
 Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelomedusidae indet.1 Cope 1868 sideneck turtle
SN-161 (site 5); left femur (51 mm in length, as preserved; proximal portion absent)
 Testudines - Podocnemididae
Mokelemys mbembe n. gen. n. sp.2
Mokelemys mbembe n. gen. n. sp.2 Pérez-García 2022 sideneck turtle
SN-419 (site 3); Fig. 1; Plate 1; shell associated with the pelvic girdle (350 mm long as preserved) SN-605 (site 11); Fig. 2; Plate 2; shell (466 mm long, as preserved) SN-230 (site 15); Plate 3; posterior cervical vertebra (centrum 24 nun long) SN-225 (site 15); right first pleural SN-357 (site 7); neural plate (31 mm wide and 13 mm thick)
 Loricata -
Crocodylomorpha indet. crocodilian
SN-235 (palatal fragment)
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Osteolaemus aff. osborni Schmidt 1919 Congo dwarf crocodile
SN-317 (partial right mandible), SN-323 (articular fragment) and SN-288 (tooth)
Euthecodon sp. Fortau 1920 crocodile
SN-505 (fragment of mandibular symphysis)
Mecistops aff. cataphractus Cuvier 1825 crocodile
SN-291 (partial left mandible)
Crocodylus aff. niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
SN-325 (partial left mandible), SN-289 (left dentary) and SN-314 (centrum of atlas-axis complex)