PaleoAngola locality Landana 1: Selandian, Angola
collected 2012

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae
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:19.5° South, 9.7° East (Wright 2013)
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: 61.66 - 59.24 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).
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:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2019-08-18 12:38:32
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]