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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "bed 3" - Maevarano Fm.; located 7-8 m below the "Maastrichtian oyster bed" (= Berivotra Fm.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by MNHN expedition in 1974; reposited in the MNHN

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

Primary reference: D. Russell, D. E. Russell, P. Taquet and H. Thomas. 1976. Nouvelles récoltes de vertébrés dans le terraines continentaux du Crétacé supérieur de la région de Majunga (Madagascar) [New collections of vertebrates in the Upper Cretaceous continental terrains of the Majunga region (Madagascar)]. Comptes Rendus de la Société Géologique de France 1976(5):205-208 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70076: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 16.03.2007

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