Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (17.2° S, 45.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 23.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Bathonian to Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. Alloiteau. 1958. Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 25:1-218 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86492: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Montlivaltia soaravikelyensis Alloiteau 1958 stony coral | |
Brachyseris besairiei n. sp., Aggomorphastraea barrabei n. gen. n. sp.
Brachyseris besairiei n. sp. Alloiteau 1958 stony coral
Aggomorphastraea barrabei n. gen. n. sp. Alloiteau 1958 stony coral | |
Lochmaeosmilia trapeziformis Gregory 1900 stony coral |