TheBentiaba (orRio de São Nicolau or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southernAngola. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near thecommune of Bentiaba inNamibe Province.
The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils includingmosasaurs from Itombe Formation.[1][2]
Bentiaba is also the name given to the Cretaceous bonebed.[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.
