Catumbela, Benguela (Cretaceous of Angola)

Where: Angola (12.4° S, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 2.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Vieira stated that the bed was probably Cretaceous, but Miller assigned it very tentatively to Lower Eocene based on faunal similarity (assuming that Aturoidea is early Tertiary). Other latest Cretaceous Aturoidea are known from India and Africa, and later authors have considered this locality to be Upper Cretaceous. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in local section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine carbonate setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Vieira

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: H. Vieira. REPOSITORY: Reparticao Central dos Servicos de Geologia e Minas, Luanda

Primary reference: A. K. Miller. 1951. Tertiary nautiloids of west-coastal Africa. Annales du Museé du Congo Belge Tervuren, Sciences Géologiques 8:1-88 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83991: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.09.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to specimens informally mentioned in text. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquated nomenclature, though identified to species resolution.
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Hercoglossidae
Aturoidea vieirai n. sp.
Aturoidea vieirai n. sp. Miller 1951 nautiloid