Also known as Nosy Makamby, Makamba

Where: Madagascar (15.7° S, 45.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.0° S, 45.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• lower terrigenous unit and upper nummulitic marl

•Early late Miocene, about 10 Ma, or early Tortonian. For this locality, Ramihangihajason et al. (2014; see their Fig. 4, numbers 8, 15, 24) reported foraminiferal taxa and ages including: Ammonia cf. beccarii (early Miocene to Holocene), Alveolinella sp. (middle Miocene to Ho- locene), and Lepidocyclina sp. (Eocene– early Miocene).

Environment/lithology: coastal; marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by Perrier de la Bathie, Collignon & Cottereau, Lavocat in 1920s, 1954

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Collignon and J. Cottreau. 1927. Paleontologie de Madagascar. XIV. Fossiles du Miocene Marine. Annales de Paleontologie 16:135-171 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51586: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2005

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