Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° S, 38.4° E)

When: Anembalemba Member (Maevarano Formation), Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• "MAD 96-02, Mahajanga basin, northwestern Madagascar; Anembalemba Member, Maevarano Formation, Upper Cretaceous, Maastrichtian."

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• "The disarticulated bones of the holotype skull of Rapetosaurus krausei were recovered from a single stratum over an area of ,1 m2 at locality MAD 96-02. Holotype material shows no duplication of elements and exhibits exact sutural articulations. Additional skull material from at least two juvenile sauropods was recovered from locality MAD 93-18 (refs 18, 19). Most of these juvenile skull elements were found intimately associated with a nearly complete juvenile postcranial skeleton that also shows no duplication of elements."

Primary reference: K. C. Rogers and C. A. Forster. 2001. The last of the dinosaur titans: A new sauropod from Madagascar. Nature 412(6846):530-4 [M. Uhen/G. Downey/G. Downey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232462: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Gwen Downey on 23.11.2023

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