MAD96-07 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 38.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anembalemba Member (Maevarano Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• described as Campanian but now considered Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "uppermost white sandstone unit" of the formation (now = Anembalemba Member)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1996

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. Dodson, D. W. Krause, C. A. Forster, S. D. Sampson, and F. Ravoavy. 1998. Titanosaurid (Sauropoda) osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):563-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55271: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.10.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines1 Batsch 1788 turtle
Limb bones, as well as carapace and plastron fragments
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Majungasaurus crenatissimus2 Depéret 1896 ceratosaur
FMNH PR 2427
 Saurischia -
Vahiny depereti n. gen. n. sp.1
Vahiny depereti n. gen. n. sp.1 Curry Rogers and Wilson 2014 sauropod
UA 9940 (partial braincase including a partial supraoccipital, basioccipital, basisphenoid, right and left exoccipital-opisthotics, prootics, laterosphenoids, and orbitosphenoids)
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
Limb bones
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Osteoderms