Also known as Sakamena River Valley; Morondava Basin

Where: Tulear, Madagascar (24.0° S, 44.4° E: paleocoordinates 53.0° S, 25.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Sakamena Formation (Sakamena Group), Lopingian (259.9 - 252.2 Ma)

• "Recent work by Goubin (1965) on spores and pollen from numerous localities in Madagascar divides the Lower Sakamena into three zones, all of which are indicated as Upper Permian. The terrestrial vertebrates occur in the uppermost of the three zones recognized by Goubin, and so at the very top of the Permian." (Carroll, 1981 p. 318)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, concretion

Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1981. Plesiosaur Ancestors from the Upper Permian of Madagascar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 293(1066):315-383 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85494: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 02.01.2009, edited by Richard Butler and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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