VH11, Vohipaly section (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (23.0° S, 44.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 33.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras dixoni ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005-2007

• Repository: Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, I. Walaszczyk, A. S. Gale, K. Dembicz, and T. Praszkier. 2013. Lower and Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. Acta Geologica Polonica 63:625-655 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174322: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Hypoturrilites taxyfabreae Collignon 1964 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Mantelliceras cantianum Spath 1926 ammonite
Mantelliceras mantelli Sowerby 1814 ammonite
Mantelliceras saxbii Sharpe 1857 ammonite
Mantelliceras dixoni Spath 1926 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Forbesiceratidae
Forbesiceras sp. Kossmat 1897 ammonite