Berambo, unit 2 (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (14.4° S, 47.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° S, 34.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 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 98218: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras androiavense Besairie 1936 ammonite
"Phylloceras velledae" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae Michelin 1834 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Paragaudryceras buddha" = Anagaudryceras
"Paragaudryceras buddha" = Anagaudryceras ammonite
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Oxytropidoceras hourcqi" = Oxytropidoceras (Mirapelia) hourcqi Collignon 1936 ammonite
"Oxytropidoceras colcanapi" = Oxytropidoceras (Mirapelia) colcanapi Collignon 1936 ammonite
"Adkinsites mirapeli" = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) ammonite
Oxytropidoceras bravoense Böse 1910 ammonite
Oxytropidoceras acutocarinatum Shumard 1853 ammonite
"Manuaniceras jacobi" = Oxytropidoceras (Manuaniceras) ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia quenstedti Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
var. bonarelli
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Gastropoda
 Vetigastropoda - Discohelicidae