Kalimahatsingo: Early/Lower Bathonian, Madagascar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia vongohensis n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea davidsoni
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar State/province:Toliara
Coordinates: 20.7° South, 45.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.4° South, 20.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Early/Lower Bathonian
Age range of interval:167.70000 - 164.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal 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:86483
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-03 07:26:16 Last modified:2009-02-03 09:26:16
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-03 07:26:15
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]