Bemena (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (16.3° S, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 23.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 98161: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata
"Terebratula acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata Kitchin 1900
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
 Nautilida - Paracenoceratidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae