Ankinganivalaka: Bathonian, Madagascar
collected by Colcanap 1900

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
Lemoine 1906
Bothriospondylus madagascariensis Lydekker 1895
6 specimens
    = Eusauropoda indet. Upchurch 1995
Mannion 2010
    = Narindasaurus thevenini n. gen., n. sp. Royo-Torres et al. 2021
Royo-Torres et al. 2021
MNHN MAJ 423-430 - holotype
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar State/province:Mahajanga
Coordinates: 14.6° South, 48.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° South, 27.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:148 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Isalo III
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: middle part of the Isalo III Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "in the limestones, claystones, and sandstones of this formation, but seem to be particularly abundant in the limestones"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MNHN
Collectors:Colcanap Collection dates:1900s
Metadata
Also known as:Ankingavola; right bank of Loza River
Database number:51249
Authorizer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-01 11:24:23 Last modified:2020-09-04 04:47:03
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-01 11:24:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
52223. C. Colcanap. 1905. Extrait d'une Notice géologique et paléontologique sur le cercle d'Analalava [Excerpt from a geological and paleontological notice on the circle of Analalava]. Bulletin du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 11(5):355-362 [M. Carrano/A. Murch/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

13816ETE J. F. Bonaparte. 1986. The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy. In K. Padian (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs: Faunal Change Across the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 247-258 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
68058 P. Lemoine. 1906. Études Géologiques dans le Nord de Madagascar. Contributions à l’Histoire Géologique de l’Océan Indien [Geological Notes in the North of Madagascar. Contributions to the Geological History of the Indian Ocean] 1-520 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
38078 P. D. Mannion. 2010. A revision of the sauropod dinosaur genus 'Bothriospondylus' with a redescription of the type material of the Middle Jurassic form 'B. madagascariensis. Palaeontology 53(2):277-296 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
73748 R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, P. Mocho and L. Alcalá. 2021. Origin and evolution of turiasaur dinosaurs set by means of a new ‘rosetta’ specimen from Spain. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(1):201-227 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
13648ETE A. Thevenin. 1907. Paléontologie de Madagascar. IV. — Dinosauriens [Paleontology of Madagascar. IV. — Dinosaurs]. Annales de Paléontologie 2:121-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]