Fotivolo (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (22.5° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.4° S, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 98189: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Euaspidoceras cf. babeaui d'Orbigny 1848 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya carinata Goldfuss 1838 clam