MAD93-17 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 36.6° S, 43.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• 11 different expeditions

Primary reference: S. E. Evans, J. R. Groenke, M. E. H. Jones, A. H. Turner, and D. W. Krause. 2014. New material of Beelzebufo, a hyperossified frog (Amphibia: Anura) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. PLoS One 9(1):e87236 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154139: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 28.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Beelzebufo ampinga Evans et al. 2008 frog
FMNH PR 2498 – cranial fragment; FMNH PR 2536 – right fused squamosal-quadratojugal flange; FMNH PR 2537 – squamosal fragment