Where: Toliara, Madagascar (25.2° S, 46.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• sediments are from "a large collapsed-cave feature in Pleistocene eolianite (calcareous sandstone)" (Godfrey et al. 2006), and the lower unit yielding extinct vertebrates is stratigraphically mixed and "mid-to-late Holocene" (Burney et al. 2008)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Burney, W. Jungers, L. Godfrey in 2002, 2003

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), sieve,

• Université d'Antananarivo collection

•includes material from three sites: AHA-B (2002) and AHA-F and AHA-I (2003)

Primary reference: D. A. Burney, N. Vasey, L. R. Godfrey, Ramilisonina, W. L. Jungers, M. Ramarolahy, and L. Raharivony. 2008. New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70(1):13-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92733: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.11.2009

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