Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (18.7° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.5° S, 21.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Lower Portlandian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, glauconitic 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 86496: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Thecocyathus collignoni n. sp.
Thecocyathus collignoni n. sp. Alloiteau 1958 stony coral |