Antorilava (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (16.8° S, 46.2° E: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• unit 1

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• marly limestone intercalations in marls

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 98138: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
 Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
"Belemnopsis calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus
"Belemnopsis calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus Schlotheim 1820 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Grossouvria aff. curvicosta" = Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta
"Grossouvria aff. curvicosta" = Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta Oppel 1857 ammonite
 Nautilida - Cymatoceratidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Rhynchonella pseudoinconstans" = Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans
"Rhynchonella pseudoinconstans" = Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans Kitchin 1900
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata Kitchin 1900