PaleoAngola locality Landana 1: Selandian, Angola
collected 2012
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Cabindachelys landanensis n. gen., n. sp.
Myers et al. 2018
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MGUAN–PA 298; almost complete skull (Figs 3, 4) and left first branchial horn of the hyoid (Fig. 5) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Angola |
| Coordinates: | 5.2° South, 12.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.6° South, 3.6° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Selandian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Selandian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 61.60000 - 59.20000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Landana | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower part assigned to the early Selandian on the basis of planktonic foraminifera biostratigraphy (Solé et al., 2018) and dinoflagellates (Steeman et al., 2019).
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 2012 |
| Collection method comments: Repository: MGUAN: MuseoGeologico da Universidade Agostino Neto, Luanda, Angola (PaleoAngola Project Collection) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 203526 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-08-18 12:38:32 | Last modified: | 2019-08-18 12:38:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-08-18 12:38:32 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63791. | 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 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/P. Mannion] |