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Bentiaba River

The Bentiaba (or Rio de São Nicolau or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southern Angola. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near the commune of Bentiaba in Namibe Province.

Bentiaba River
Location in Angola
Location
CountryAngola
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • coordinates
14°16′40″S 12°21′43″E / 14.277774°S 12.362034°E / -14.277774; 12.362034

The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils including mosasaurs from Itombe Formation.[1][2]

Bentiaba is also the name given to the Cretaceous bonebed.[3]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ New mosasaur material from the Maastrichtian of Angola, with notes on the phylogeny, distribution and palaeoecology of the genus Prognathodon, Anne S. Schulp, Michael J. Polcyn, Octávio Mateus, Louis L. Jacobs, Maria Luísa Morais & Tatiana da Silva Tavares
  2. ^ Polcyn, Michael J.; Jacobs, Louis L.; Schulp, Anne S.; Mateus, Octávio (March 2010). "The North African Mosasaur Globidens phosphaticus from the Maastrichtian of Angola". Historical Biology. 22 (1–3): 175–185. doi:10.1080/08912961003754978. ISSN 0891-2963. S2CID 62882332.
  3. ^ Strganac, C., Jacobs L., Polcyn M., Mateus O., Myers T., Araújo R., Fergunson K. M., Gonçalves A. O., Morais M. L., Schulp A. S., da Tavares T. S., & Salminen J. (2014). Geological Setting and Paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 Marine Vertebrate Bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 1-16.


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