{"id":289,"date":"2015-02-24T17:47:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=289"},"modified":"2021-04-17T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:07:25","slug":"rdc-2014","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/?page_id=289","title":{"rendered":"<\/span> Democratic Republic of Congo 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New excavations in old localities of Bas-Congo discovered by 1937\u2019s Belgian expeditions<\/span><\/h5>\n

Important samplings during Dartevelle\u2019s expeditions were realised in Landana, Angola because outcrops were easily exposed along cliffs. For this reason, the supposedly equivalent Paleogene localities on the Congolese side were less intensively sampled. A 1st expedition in Bas-Congo was done by the PalEurAfrica team in September 2014. Several fossiliferous localities yielding vertebrates in the area of Manzadi (today Tzadi-Congo) and Bololo were re-visited by a small team of geologists and palaeontologists from RBINS, RMCA, Ohio University, and the Centre de Recherches G\u00e9ologiques et Mini\u00e8res, Kinshasa (CRGM) to collect sediments for sedimentological, microfossil and isotopic analyses.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"0101 Visit of the CRGM (Centre de Recherche G\u00e9ologique et Mini\u00e8re, Kinshasa)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0202 On the road to Boma<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0303 The Congo River and the impressive city of Matadi<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0404 The team with the mayor of Boma (Marie-Jos\u00e9e Niongo Nsuami)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0505 An inscription near the city hall reminds the history of Boma<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0606 The team is ready for the fieldwork. From left to right: Thierry Smith (RBINS); Patsy, Patrick & Nicole Kitambala Yaya (CRGM); Damien Delvaux & Daniel Baudet (RMCA); Elvis (CRGM)<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0707 On the trail to Manzadi village<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0808 Near the old quarry of Boma<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"0909 The trail is in bad shape<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1010 Inhabitants of the Manzadi village<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1111 The traditional chief of Manzadi village<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1212 Nicole Kitambala Yaya (CRGM) tries to relocate old fossil localities with inhabitants<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1313 The valley of Manzadi that Edmond Dartevelle explored in 1937<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1414 Digging to find an outcrop in the middle of the Manzadi valley<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1515 First fossil shell at the base of the Manzadi outcrop<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1616 Nicole Kitambala Yaya (CRGM) showing a fossil Myliobatis ray tooth just discovered<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1717 Nancy Stevens (Ohio Univ.) collecting shark and ray teeth at the ground surface in Bololo locality<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"1818 Local workers digging of an outcrop in Bololo, and Nancy Stevens (Ohio Univ.) and Nicole Kitambala Yaya (CRGM) sampling for microfossils<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"2020 Internal mold of a fossil shell found in Bololo<\/span><\/a><\/div>
\"2121 The team at the end of the day before leaving Bololo<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div>
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New excavations in old localities of Bas-Congo discovered by 1937\u2019s Belgian expeditions Important samplings during Dartevelle\u2019s expeditions were realised in Landana, Angola because outcrops were easily exposed along cliffs. For this reason, the supposedly equivalent Paleogene localities on the Congolese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/contact.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/289\/revisions\/2870"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paleurafrica.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}