Andranomiolaka (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (20.0° S, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-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 98170: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Hecticoceras sp. Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
Putealiceras trilineatum Waagen 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Kepplerites sp. Neumayr and Uhlig 1892 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
"Peltoceras aff. athleta" = Peltoceras (Peltoceras) athleta
"Peltoceras aff. athleta" = Peltoceras (Peltoceras) athleta Phillips 1829 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Liogryphaea imbricata" = Gryphaea
"Liogryphaea imbricata" = Gryphaea oyster