Also known as Congosaurus bequaerti type locality
Where: Cabinda, Angola (5.6° S, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.0° S, 3.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Landana Formation, Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• bed ("couche") no. 8
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy, calcareous sandstone and lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Bequaert in 1913
Primary reference: R. C. Wood. 1973. Fossil marine turtle remains from the Paleocene of the Congo. Annales du Musee Royal d'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Geologiques 75:1-28 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 113759: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 04.08.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd
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Taxonomic list
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Congosaurus bequaerti n. gen. n. sp.
Congosaurus bequaerti n. gen. n. sp. Dollo 1914 crocodilian holotype (MRAC 1741-1743, 1745, 1796, 1797, 1802, 1803, 1806, 1809-1811, 1813-1819, 1823, 1828, 1839, 1852, 1854, 1870, 1871, 1887, 1894 and 1895)
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