Analavelona: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, Madagascar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Stephanophyllia lanquinei Alloiteau 1936
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Smilotrochus jacobi Alloiteau 1936
synonym of Smilotrochus milneri
Discosmilia analavelonensis n. gen., n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
synonym of Deltocyathus complanatus
Stephanosmilia madagascariensis n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Ceratopsammia besairiei n. gen., n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
recombined as Balanophyllia besairiei
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar State/province:Toliara
Coordinates: 22.8° South, 44.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° South, 35.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:86519
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-06 02:15:36 Last modified:2009-02-06 04:15:36
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-06 02:15:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29108. J. Alloiteau. 1958. Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 25:1-218 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]