MAD93-73 (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)

• Facies 2 of member, 9.6 m below top of formation and base of Berivotra Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; fine-grained, coarse, argillaceous sandstone

• debris-flow deposits, instigated by high-precipitation events on a parched floodplain
• "fine- to coarse-grained clay-rich massive sandstone beds characterized by very poor sorting"

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1993-1999

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 55270: 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 -
Beelzebufo ampinga1 Evans et al. 2008 frog
UA 9622 – partial left premaxilla
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Abelisauridae
Majungasaurus crenatissimus2 Depéret 1896 ceratosaur
UA 9032
 Saurischia - Titanosauridae
Titanosauridae indet. Lydekker 1885 titanosaurid
FMNH PR 2052, osteoderm
 Loricata -
Simosuchus clarki3 Buckley et al. 2000 pug-nosed crocodile
UA 9758 (isolated tooth)
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Adinophis fisaka n. gen. n. sp.4
Adinophis fisaka n. gen. n. sp.4 Pritchard et al. 2014 snake
FMNH PR 2577
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Antronestheriidae
Ethmosestheria mahajangaensis n. gen. n. sp.5 Stigall and Hartman 2008 clam shrimp