Angolatitan adamastor (first dinosaur from Angola)
Angolatitan adamastor (primer dinosaurio de Angola)
- Date
- 2011 (fósil de c. 90 Ma) · confidence high
- Place
- Bentiaba, Namibe, Angola
- Credited to
- Octávio Mateus and the PaleoAngola project
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A c. 90 Ma Late Cretaceous sauropod about 13 m long, found at Bentiaba and described in 2011. It is the first dinosaur found in Angola and supports the Gondwanan connection near the end of the Cretaceous.
Described by Mateus and colleagues (Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011). The Bentiaba location is approximate and the age (Turonian) comes from regional stratigraphy.
What it led to
- the PaleoAngola project studying Angola's marine and terrestrial fossils
- data on the titanosaur sauropod fauna of Africa
- a boost to Angolan palaeontology after the war