MAD98-25 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 38.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anembalemba Member (Maevarano Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• "uppermost white sandstone unit" of the formation (now = Anembalemba Member)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1998

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: D. W. Krause, J. J. W. Sertich, R. R. Rogers, S. C. Kast, A. H. Rasoamiaramanana and G. A. Buckley. 2010. Overview of the discovery, distribution, and geological context of Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10:4-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 118202: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 08.10.2011, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Beelzebufo ampinga Evans et al. 2008 frog
FMNH PR 2512 – partial skull and axial column, including braincase, partial frontoparietal, and right posterior skull, portions of the left posterior skull and rostrum, left pars facialis of maxilla, partial stapes, atlas and second presacral vertebra, presacral vertebra interpreted as PS4, presacral spinous process interpreted as PS5, partial presacral vertebral centrum, partial anterior urostyle
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Simosuchus clarki Buckley et al. 2000 pug-nosed crocodile
FMNH PR 2594 (isolated tooth)