Sofia River (Cretaceous of Madagascar)
Where: Madagascar (15.5° S, 47.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 31.7° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 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 98226: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2010
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Taxonomic list
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Polychaeta | |
Bivalvia | |
Protocardia sphaeroidalis cockle | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cymatoceras sakalavum Collignon 1949 nautiloid | |
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum, "Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
"Douvilleiceras orbignyi" = Douvilleiceras inaequinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite | |
Beudanticeras sp. Hitzell 1902 ammonite | |
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum
"Desmoceras latidorsatum" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Discohelix thevenini snail |