Where: Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar (21.6° S, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 30.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Sakamena Formation (Sakamena Group), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)

• Sakamena moyenne ("middle")

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Father O. Appert in 1962

Primary reference: O. Rieppel. 1980. Additional specimens of Saurichthys madagascariensis Piveteau, from the Eotrias of Madagascar. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 1980(1):43-51 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120933: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2011

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