Radama Peninsula (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (14.3° S, 47.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° S, 34.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

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 98216: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula ovata Phillips 1841 nut clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia quenstedti Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras sakalavum Collignon 1949 nautiloid