Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
The species name has been registered in ZooBank under LSID. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:65589F4D-CECB-498C-8C2E-09F30E6D1B83 Named for the town of Landana, near the locality where the type specimen was collected
Full reference: T. S. Myers, M. J. Polcyn, O. Mateus, D. P. Vineyard, A. O. Goncalves and L. J. Jacobs. 2018. A new durophagous stem cheloniid turtle from the lower Paleocene of Cabinda, Angola. Papers in Palaeontology 4(2):161-176
Belongs to Cabindachelys according to T. S. Myers et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MGUAN–PA 298, a partial skull (almost complete skull (Figs 3, 4) and left first branchial horn of the hyoid (Fig. 5)). Its type locality is PaleoAngola locality Landana 1, which is in a Selandian deep subtidal limestone in the Landana Formation of Angola.
Ecology: aquatic omnivore
Distribution:
• Paleocene of Angola (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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