Where: Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar (21.7° S, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 50.7° S, 30.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Middle Sakamena Formation (Sakamena Group), Dienerian (250.5 - 251.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified, nodular limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.-P. Lehman & Mr. Germain in 1954
• Repository: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Primary reference: J.-P. Lehman, C. Chateau, M. Laurain and M. Nauche. 1959. Paléontologie de Madagascar XXVIII. - Les poissons de la Sakamena moyenne. Annales de Paléontologie 45:175-219 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 154183: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 30.01.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Osteichthyes | |
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Microceratodus angolensis Texeira 1947 lungfish | |
Paraceratodus germaini n. gen. n. sp.
Paraceratodus germaini n. gen. n. sp. Lehman et al. 1959 lungfish | |
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Parasemionotus besairiei n. sp. Lehman et al. 1959 ray-finned fish
Parasemionotus labordei Priem 1924 ray-finned fish
Watsonulus eugnathoides Piveteau 1935 ray-finned fish
Thomasinotus sp. Lehman 1952 ray-finned fish | |
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Australosomus sp. Pivetau 1930 ray-finned fish | |
Saurichthys sp., "Saurichthys madagascariensis" = Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) madagascariensis
Saurichthys sp. Agassiz 1834 ray-finned fish
"Saurichthys madagascariensis" = Saurichthys (Eosaurichthys) madagascariensis Piveteau 1945 ray-finned fish | |
Sakamenichthys germaini n. gen.
Sakamenichthys germaini n. gen. Lehman et al. 1959 | |
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Bobasatrania cf. mahavavica White 1932 | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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