Colline de la Cluse du Sikily (Manera) (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Also known as Collignon gisement 552

Where: Madagascar (22.5° S, 44.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.4° S, 18.0° E)

When: Aulacosphinctes hollandi ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Collignon in 1952

Primary reference: M. Collignon. 1960. Atlas des fossiles caractéristiques de Madagascar (Ammonites) - VI : Tithonique. Pl CXXXIV-CLXXV [P. Scofield/P. Scofield]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234351: authorized by Paul Scofield, entered by Paul Scofield on 03.04.2024

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Corongoceras aurouzei n. sp. ammonite
Corongoceras nodosum n. sp. ammonite
Himalayites faucium n. sp. ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Pterolytoceras sutile" = Lytoceras, "Pterolytoceras sikilyense n. sp." = Lytoceras, "Pterolytoceras exoticum" = Pterolytoceras exoticus
"Pterolytoceras sutile" = Lytoceras ammonite
n. spp. var. madagascariensis
"Pterolytoceras sikilyense n. sp." = Lytoceras ammonite
"Pterolytoceras exoticum" = Pterolytoceras exoticus Oppel 1863 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras serum Oppel 1865 ammonite