Where: Toliara, Madagascar (25.2° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° S, 46.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• sediments are from "a large collapsed-cave feature in Pleistocene eolianite (calcareous sandstone)" (Godfrey et al. 2006), and the lower unit yielding extinct vertebrates is stratigraphically mixed and "mid-to-late Holocene" (Burney et al. 2008)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Sikora, C. Allaud, Lt. Gaulbert, G. Grandidier, M. F. Geay, R. Decary in 1899-1902, 1906, 1926; reposited in the BMNH, MNHN

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• most historical collections come from the 1899 excavations and were reposited at the NHM and Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, but additional MNHN material was recovered by C. Allaud, Lt. Gaulbert, G. Grandidier in 1900, 1901, and 1902, M. F. Geay in 1906, and R. Decary in 1926 (Burney et al. 2008)

Primary reference: D. A. Burney, N. Vasey, L. R. Godfrey, Ramilisonina, W. L. Jungers, M. Ramarolahy, and L. Raharivony. 2008. New findings at Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 70(1):13-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92732: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.11.2009

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