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
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Bivalvia | |
Palaeonucula blanfordi nut clam | |
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum
"Alectryonia gregarea" = Actinostreon gregareum Sowerby 1816 oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Belemnopsis calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus
"Belemnopsis calloviensis" = Pachybelemnopsis canaliculatus Schlotheim 1820 belemnite | |
Pleurocephalites ex gr. elephantinus ammonite
Macrocephalites triangularis ammonite | |
"Grossouvria aff. curvicosta" = Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta
"Grossouvria aff. curvicosta" = Indosphinctes (Elatmites) curvicosta Oppel 1857 ammonite | |
Procymatoceras intumescens Waagen 1873 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Rhynchonella pseudoinconstans" = Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans
"Rhynchonella pseudoinconstans" = Torquirhynchia pseudoinconstans Kitchin 1900 | |
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata Kitchin 1900 |