@article {Mateus:2011, title = {Angolatitan adamastor, a new sauropod dinosaur and the first record from Angola.}, journal = {Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ci{\^e}ncias}, volume = {83}, year = {2011}, note = {

"Chamei-me Adamastor [...] / Converte-se-me a carne em terra dura, / Em penedos os ossos se fizeram, / Estes membros que v{\^e}s e esta figura / Por estas longas {\'a}guas se estenderam; / Enfim, minha grand{\'\i}ssima estatura
Neste remoto cabo converteram / Os Deuses, e por mais dobradas m{\'a}goas, / Me anda Thetis cercando destas {\'a}guas."

Extract of Os Lus{\'\i}adas, a poem by Luiz Vaz de Cam{\~o}es (1572) translated into English, among others, by Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer of Africa:

I was named Adamastor [...] / My stiff{\textquoteright}ning flesh to earthy ridges grew, / And my huge bones, no more by marrow warm{\textquoteright}d, / To horrid piles, and ribs of rock transform{\textquoteright}d, / Yon dark-brow{\textquoteright}d cape of monstrous size became, / Where, round me still, in triumph o{\textquoteright}er my shame, / The silv{\textquoteright}ry Thetis bids her surges roar, / And waft my groans along the dreary shore

}, month = {Jan}, pages = {221-233}, abstract = {

A forelimb of a new sauropod dinosaur (Angolatitan adamastor n. gen. et sp.) from the Late Turonian of Iembe (Bengo Province) represents the first dinosaur discovery in Angola, and is one of the few occurrences of sauropod dinosaurs in sub-Saharan Africa collected with good chronological controls. The marginal marine sediments yielding the specimen are reported to be late Turonian in age and, thus it represents a non-titanosaurian sauropod in sub-Saharan Africa at a time taken to be dominated by titanosaurian forms. Moreover, Angolatitan adamastor is the only basal Somphospondyli known in the Late Cretaceous which implies in the existence of relict forms in Africa.

}, url = {http://www.scielo.br/pdf/aabc/v83n1/v83n1a12.pdf}, attachments = {https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/sites/default/files/omateus/files/mateus_et_al_2011_angolatitan_adamastor_sauropod.pdf}, author = {O. Mateus and Jacobs, LL and Schulp, AS and M. J. Polcyn and Tavares, TS and Neto, AB and Morais, ML and Antunes, MT} }