MAD93-01 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 38.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Anembalemba Member (Maevarano Formation), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• described as Campanian but now considered Maastrichtian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "uppermost white sandstone unit" of the formation (now = Anembalemba Member)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by D. Krause & crew in 1993

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: P. Dodson, D. W. Krause, C. A. Forster, S. D. Sampson, and F. Ravoavy. 1998. Titanosaurid (Sauropoda) osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):563-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55268: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.10.2005, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Neobatrachia indet.2 Reig 1958 frog
FMNH-PR 2003 (sacrum)
Beelzebufo ampinga4 Evans et al. 2008 frog
UA 9614 – posteroventral process of right squamosal; UA 9615 – cranial fragment from antorbital margin, either nasal or frontoparietal; FMNH PR 2003 – right half of sacral vertebra
 Salientia - Calyptocephalellidae
cf. Calyptocephalellidae indet.1 Reig 1960 frog
FMNH-PR 1961 (atlas)
Mammalia
 Allotheria - Sudamericidae
Sudamericidae indet.5 Scillato-Yané and Pascual 1984 mammal
UA 9938 (fragmentary molariform cheek tooth)
Reptilia
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Madtsoia madagascariensis7 Hoffstetter 1961 snake
 Squamata - Nigerophiidae
Kelyophis hechti n. gen. n. sp.7
Kelyophis hechti n. gen. n. sp.7 LaDuke et al. 2010 snake
UA 9682
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Majungasaurus crenatissimus6 Depéret 1896 ceratosaur
UA 8718, 8782; FMNH PR 2425
 Theropoda - Noasauridae
Masiakasaurus knopfleri3 Sampson et al. 2001 ceratosaur
FMNH PR 2201
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
osteoderm, skeletal elements