Beala (Jurassic of Madagascar)
Where: Madagascar (21.5° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.2° S, 19.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Besairie and M. Collignon. 1972. Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 35:1-463 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Palaeonucula aff. blanfordi nut clam | |
Ceromya concentrica Sowerby 1825 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Holcophylloceras mediterraneum, Calliphylloceras disputabile, Partschiceras subobtusum, Ptychophylloceras flabellatum
Holcophylloceras mediterraneum Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Calliphylloceras disputabile Zittel 1869 ammonite
Partschiceras subobtusum ammonite
Ptychophylloceras flabellatum Neumayr 1871 ammonite | |
"Thysanolytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides
"Thysanolytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides Kudernatsch 1852 ammonite | |
Obtusicostites ex gr. obtusicosta Waagen 1875 ammonite
Sivajiceras sp. ammonite
Choffatia sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
Subgrossouvria sp. ammonite | |
Reineckeia cf. grappini ammonite | |
"Belemnopsis ex gr. calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus
"Belemnopsis ex gr. calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus Schlotheim 1820 belemnite |