The Bentiaba (or ''Rio de São Nicolau'' or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southern
Angola
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. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near the
commune
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of Bentiaba in
Namibe Province.
The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils including
mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin ''Mosa'' meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek ' meaning 'lizard') comprise a group of extinct, large marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on ...
s from Itombe Formation.
Bentiaba is also the name given to the Cretaceous bonebed.
[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.]
See also
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List of rivers of Angola
This is a list of rivers in Angola. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Atlantic Ocean
*Chiloango River
*Congo River
**Inkisi River
**Kasai River (Cassai River)
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References
Rivers of Angola
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