Where: Madagascar (16.8° S, 46.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 29.7° S, 36.5° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• Oecoptychius refractus and Phlycticeras franconicum zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Besairie and M. Collignon. 1972. Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 35:1-463 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98133: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Campylites secula malakialinensis ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Kinkeliniceras kinkelini, Obtusicostites sp., "Choffatia aff. cobra" = Choffatia, "Grossouvria rjasanensis" = Choffatia, Grossouvria evexa
Kinkeliniceras kinkelini Dacque 1910 ammonite
Obtusicostites sp. ammonite
"Choffatia aff. cobra" = Choffatia ammonite
"Grossouvria rjasanensis" = Choffatia ammonite
Grossouvria evexa Quenstedt 1885 ammonite | |
Sindeites madagascariensis ammonite
Kheraites giraudi ammonite |