Bibanga (Katanga-Kasai border) (Cretaceous to of Congo-Kinshasa)

Where: Kasai-Oriental, Congo-Kinshasa (6.5° S, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° S, 11.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lualaba Group, Cenomanian to Cenomanian (100.5 - 89.8 Ma)

• Lualaba Series; Name of stratigraphic horizon and age provided by Mader & Kellner (1999) and Kellner et al. (2007)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

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Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Bequaert in 1947

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• announced by Mssrs. L. Cahen & J. Lepersonne

Primary reference: W. E. Swinton. 1948. A Cretaceous pterosaur from the Belgian Congo. Bulletin de la Société Belge de Géologie, de Paléontologie, et d'Hydrologie 57:234-238 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89997: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 25.06.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Pterosauria -
aff. Ornithocheirus sp. Seeley 1869 pterosaur
Wing metacarpal; "close to the genus Ornithocheirus"