Ampandrabé: Early/Lower Bathonian, Madagascar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Aggomorphastraea barrabei Alloiteau 1958
Microphyllia cf. davidsoni (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
Isastrea aff. irregularis Koby 1906
recombined as Trigerastraea irregularis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea parvistella n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
? Adelocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Plesiostylina hourcqi n. gen., n. sp. Alloiteau 1958
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Cryptocoenia cf. dolfussi
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar State/province:Toliara
Coordinates: 20.4° South, 45.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.2° South, 20.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:168.20000 - 165.30000 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:86495
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-04 04:07:30 Last modified:2009-02-04 06:07:30
Access level:the public Released:2009-02-04 04:07:30
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]