Malandiandro (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (16.5° S, 45.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° S, 29.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• group of beds-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 98233: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras monile Sowerby 1816 ammonite
Douvilleiceras inaequinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Eogaudryceras numidum Coquand 1880 ammonite
var. malandiandrensis
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Thysanolytoceras strambergense" = Lytoceras, "Lytoceras obliquestrangulatum" = Lytoceras juilleti
"Thysanolytoceras strambergense" = Lytoceras ammonite
"Lytoceras obliquestrangulatum" = Lytoceras juilleti d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras velledae" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae
"Phylloceras velledae" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae Michelin 1834 ammonite