VH21, Vohipaly section (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (23.0° S, 44.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.3° S, 33.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mantelliceras dixoni ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown mudstone

• Well-cemented, brown mudstone, with numerous ammonites and inoceramids

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2005-2007

• Repository: Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, I. Walaszczyk, A. S. Gale, K. Dembicz, and T. Praszkier. 2013. Lower and Middle Cenomanian ammonites from the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. Acta Geologica Polonica 63:625-655 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174329: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Pachydesmoceras kossmati
Pachydesmoceras kossmati Matsumoto 1987 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Sharpeiceras australe n. sp., Acompsoceras tenue
Sharpeiceras australe n. sp. Kennedy 2014 ammonite
Acompsoceras tenue Collignon 1964 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Mariella (Mariella) stolizcai, Hypoturrilites taxyfabreae
Mariella (Mariella) stolizcai Collignon 1964 ammonite
Hypoturrilites taxyfabreae Collignon 1964 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras antanimangaensis
Sciponoceras antanimangaensis Collignon 1964 ammonite