Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 38.3° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Anembalemba Member (Maevarano Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "uppermost white sandstone unit" = Anembalemba Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; white sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: trace
Reposited in the DMNH, FMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: D. W. Krause, G. V. R. Prasad, W. Koenigswald, A. Sahni, and F. E. Grine. 1997. Cosmopolitanism among Gondwanan Late Cretaceous mammals. Nature 390:504-507 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 39266: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.05.2004, edited by Philip Mannion, Roger Benson, Jonathan Tennant and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Beelzebufo ampinga4 Evans et al. 2008 frog UA 9623 – fragment of otic and ventral processes of squamosal; UA 9624 – posterior process of left quadratojugal; UA 9625 – posteroventral process of right squamosal; UA 9626 – cranial fragment; UA 9627 – partial vertebral spine table; UA 9635 – anterior fragment of right maxilla; UA 9676 – fragment of right maxilla bearing maxillary nerve canal; UA 9677 – fragment of frontoparietal or squamosal; UA 9679 – cranial fragment; UA 9947 – presacral vertebra, interpreted as PS3; UA 9948 – posterior presacral vertebra; FMNH PR 1960 – partial right premaxilla; FMNH PR 2504 – vertebral centrum and partial neural arch; FMNH PR 2505 – facial process of right maxilla; FMNH PR 2506 – partial right maxilla; FMNH PR 2507 – facial process and pars dentalis of right maxilla; FMNH PR 2508 – cranial fragment from antorbital margin, frontoparietal or nasal; FMNH PR 2509 – conjoined midline frontoparietal fragment; FMNH PR 2510 – partial left maxilla. Locality MAD93-36: UA 9678 – vertebral spine table; UA 9949 – fragment of otic plate of right squamosal
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Masiakasaurus knopfleri3 Sampson et al. 2001 ceratosaur FMNH PR 2220, 2199; UA 9183, 9734, 9773, 9199, 9185, 9137
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Mahajangasuchus insignis n. gen. n. sp.14
Mahajangasuchus insignis n. gen. n. sp.14 Buckley and Brochu 1999 Mahajanga crocodile UA 8654; FMNH PR 2389, 2449
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Sokatra antitra n. gen. n. sp.6
Sokatra antitra n. gen. n. sp.6 Gaffney and Krause 2011 sideneck turtle UA 9769 - holotype (partial skull, lacking the premaxillae, basioccipital, and with damaged basisphenoid, quadrates, prootics, and opisthotics). FMNH nos. PR 2647 (supraoccipital), PR 2648 (left frontal), PR 2649 (partial skull with articulated or associated quadrates, both opisthotics, left exoccipital, right prootic, left pterygoid, and right palatine)and UA nos. 9864 (partial right quadrate) and 9865 (partial left maxilla) were recovered from a small (2 m2) quarried surface at this locality
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Mammalia | |
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Sudamericidae indet.7 Scillato-Yané and Pascual 1984 mammal UA 9937 (fragmentary molariform cheek tooth)
Lavanify miolaka Krause et al. 1997 mammal | |
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Cubiculum ornatus | |
Cubiculum ornatus n. gen. n. sp.13
Cubiculum ornatus n. gen. n. sp.13 Roberts et al. 2007 |