north of Port Bergé (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.6° S, 47.7° E: paleocoordinates 23.4° S, 26.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Isalo IIIb Formation, Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G. Pasini in 2001

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

Primary reference: S. Maganuco, A. Cau, and G. Pasini. 2005. First description of theropod remains from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Madagascar. Atti della SocietĂ  Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 146(2):165-202 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 55747: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 03.11.2005, edited by Philip Mannion and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Neoceratosauria indet. Novas 1991 ceratosaur
MSNM V5821
aff. Coelurosauria indet. coelurosaur
MSNM V5822, V5823, V5824
 Saurischia -
Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995 sauropod
MSNM V6226; J2 morphotype = Taxon A
Neosauropoda indet. Bonaparte 1986 sauropod
MSNM V621; J8 morphotype = Taxon D; identified as belonging either to Diplodocoidea (Dicraeosauridae?) or Titanosauria