Berenty (Ankazoabo) (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Also known as Nicolai Gisement 566

Where: Atsimo-Andrefana, Madagascar (22.2° S, 45.1° E: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 19.2° E)

When: Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Nicolai in 1948

Primary reference: M. Collignon. 1959. Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites). Fascicule III (Oxfordian). Pl. XXXIV-XLVI [P. Scofield/P. Scofield]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234151: authorized by Paul Scofield, entered by Paul Scofield on 20.03.2024

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Dichotomosphinctes (Otosphinctes) rotiformis, "Dichotomosphinctes (Otosphinctes) jacobi" = Otosphinctes
Dichotomosphinctes (Otosphinctes) rotiformis Spath 1931 ammonite
UBGD.010214
"Dichotomosphinctes (Otosphinctes) jacobi" = Otosphinctes ammonite