MAD96-24 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "uppermost white sandstone unit" = Anembalemba Member

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; white sandstone

• "shallow and very broad channel-belt system characterized by an ephemeral and flood-prone discharge regime."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154141: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 28.01.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Beelzebufo ampinga Evans et al. 2008 frog
UA 9629 – four fragments of large left squamosal