Sakamena (Permian to of Madagascar)
Also known as PGAP 13199
Where: Madagascar (23.6° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 53.3° S, 23.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Lower Sakamena Formation (Sakamena Group), Capitanian to Capitanian (264.3 - 254.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Age assignment is from Langford, 1992
Primary reference: H. Besairie and M. Collignon. 1972. Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 35:1-463 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 30284: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• List from p. 402. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Voltziopsida | |
Voltzia "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Phyllotheca "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 | |
Cycadopsida | |
Thinnfeldia "sp. 1" Ettingshausen 1852 cycads | |
Arberiopsida | |
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 |