Behevo: Early Callovian - Middle Callovian, Madagascar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Cytheropleron informal sp. 1
Fastigatocythere (Batella) falcula
Fastigatocythere (Habocythere) bicruciata
Fastigatocythere (Fastigatocythere) trisulcata
Fastigatocythere informal sp. 1
Fastigatocythere sp.
Neurocythere whatleyi
Ostracoda
Fastigatocythere (Amicytheridea) triangulata
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella index
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Candonidae
Paracypris sp. Sars 1866
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytheridae
? Lophocythere sp.
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Oligocythereis informal sp. 1
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
? Schuleridea sp. Swartz and Swain 1946
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Progonocytheridae
? Pleurocythere sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar
Coordinates: 23.0° South, 44.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.3° South, 18.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Early Callovian - Middle Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: fine- to medium-grained siliciclastics
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: shoreface to shallow middle/outer shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:101719
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2010-12-30 21:44:48 Last modified:2010-12-30 04:44:48
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-30 21:44:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34610. W. Mette. 2004. Middle to Upper Jurassic sedimentary sequences and marine biota of the early Indian Ocean (SW Madagascar): some biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic conclusions. Journal of African Earth Sciences 38:331-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]