Ranonda-Anontsy (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (23.7° S, 44.3° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° S, 27.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous 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 98264: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster sp. Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster sp. Agassiz and Desor 1847 heart urchin
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
"Terebratula obesa" = Concinnithyris obesa
"Terebratula obesa" = Concinnithyris obesa Sowerby 1823
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Douvilleiceras inaequinodum, "Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum, "Douvilleiceras albense" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum
Douvilleiceras inaequinodum Quenstedt 1849 ammonite
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
"Douvilleiceras albense" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
"Ellipsoceras expansum" = Myloceras (Ellipsoceras) expansum
"Ellipsoceras expansum" = Myloceras (Ellipsoceras) expansum Collignon 1950 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia paronae" = Puzosia (Puzosia) paronae Kilian 1900 ammonite
Puzosia quenstedti Parona and Bonarelli 1897 ammonite
var. media
"Latidorsella latidorsata" = Desmoceras (Desmoceras) latidorsatum Michelin 1838 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Silesitidae
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
"Hemitetragonites cf. crebrisulcatus" = Protetragonites crebrisulcatus, Hemitetragonites strangulatus
"Hemitetragonites cf. crebrisulcatus" = Protetragonites crebrisulcatus Uhlig 1883 ammonite
Hemitetragonites strangulatus d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Jaubertella jauberti" = Gabbioceras ammonite
"Jaubertella latecarinatum" = Gabbioceras ammonite
"Tetragonites timotheanus" = Tetragonites (Tetragonites) timotheanus Pictet 1847 ammonite
Tetragonites subtimotheanus Wiedmann 1962 ammonite
Tetragonites aff. nautiloides Pictet 1848 ammonite
Zelandites odiensis Kossmat 1895 ammonite
"Gaudryceras cf. sacya" = Anagaudryceras sacya Forbes 1846 ammonite
"Paragaudryceras coagmentatum" = Anagaudryceras ammonite
Gaudryceras stefaninii Venzo 1936 ammonite
"Lytoceras belliseptatum" = Argonauticeras belliseptatum Anthula 1899 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Tegoceras (Rauliniceras) seunesi" = Tegoceras camatteanum
"Tegoceras (Rauliniceras) seunesi" = Tegoceras camatteanum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
"Pervinquieria inflata" = Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum Sowerby 1818 ammonite
"Deiradoceras besairiei" = Mortoniceras (Deiradoceras) bispinosum Spath 1921 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae