Andranomamy / Tsinjorano (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (16.5° S, 47.1° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 25.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Isalo III Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified sandstone and lenticular, green claystone

• "The bed is formed from friable sandstone with cross-bedded stratification and green clays partly oxidized to brown. The fossiliferous lens is found in a clay bank of 1-2 m thickness.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Cadioux, Ginsburg, Payor, de Ricqlès in 1962; reposited in the MNHN

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

Primary reference: A. Ogier. 1975. Etude de Nouveaux Ossements de Bothriospondylus (Sauropode) d'un Gisement du Bathonien de Madagascar [Study of New Bones of Bothriospondylus (Sauropod) from a Locality from the Bathonian of Madagascar]. Sciences Naturelles, Université de Paris VI 1-111 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55421: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 20.10.2005

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