Andrangory (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (20.8° S, 44.8° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Lower-Middle Argovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

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 98177: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Epimayaites falcoides Spath 1928 ammonite
Epimayaites ex gr. subtumidus Waagen 1875 ammonite
Epimayaites aff. lautus Spath 1928 ammonite
Epimayaites aff. transiens Waagen 1875 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Arisphinctes helenae" = Perisphinctes (Arisphinctes) ammonite
"Pachyplanulites subevolutus" = Kranaosphinctes (Pachyplanulites) ammonite
"Dichotomosphinctes subrota" = Perisphinctes (Dichotomosphinctes) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae