Manambao River (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (17.6° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° S, 29.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

• thin limestone bed intercalated in 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 98248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster phrynus heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
"Neithea quadricostata" = Neithea regularis
"Neithea quadricostata" = Neithea regularis Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae