Marolafy River (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (21.1° S, 44.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° S, 31.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pervinquieria inflata ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 98265: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
"Pervinquieria inflata" = Mortoniceras (Mortoniceras) inflatum Sowerby 1818 ammonite