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

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceromya concentrica Sowerby 1825 clam
Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Holcophylloceras mediterraneum Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Calliphylloceras disputabile Zittel 1869 ammonite
Ptychophylloceras flabellatum Neumayr 1871 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Thysanolytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides
"Thysanolytoceras adeloides" = Lytoceras eudesianum adeloides Kudernatsch 1852 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Sivajiceras sp. ammonite
Choffatia sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
"Belemnopsis ex gr. calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus
"Belemnopsis ex gr. calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus Schlotheim 1820 belemnite