Ankilimena (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (22.8° S, 44.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments

• nearshore to middle/outer shelf

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: W. Mette. 2004. Middle to Upper Jurassic sedimentary sequences and marine biota of the early Indian Ocean (SW Madagascar): some biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic conclusions. Journal of African Earth Sciences 38:331-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101720: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.12.2010

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