MAD93-14 (SUNY) (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1993

Primary reference: T. C. LaDuke, D. W. Krause, J. D. Scanlon and N. J. Kley. 2010. A Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) snake assemblage from the Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):109-138 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96692: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 25.06.2010, edited by Philip Mannion and Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Simosuchus clarki2 Buckley et al. 2000 pug-nosed crocodile
UA 9756 (isolated tooth)
 Squamata - Madtsoiidae
Menarana nosymena n. gen. n. sp.
Menarana nosymena n. gen. n. sp. LaDuke et al. 2010 snake
UA 9684
Amphibia
 Salientia -
Beelzebufo ampinga1 Evans et al. 2008 frog
UA 9620 – fragment of dorsal bony plate.