5 km southwest of the village of Ambatomainty (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Toliara, Madagascar (22.5° S, 44.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 33.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy siltstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Primary reference: M. S. Zavada. 2003. The ultrastructure of angiosperm pollen from the Lower Cenomanian of the Morondova Basin, Madagascar. Grana 42(1):20-32 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 167942: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 09.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Classopollis "sp." Pflug 1953
Ginkgoopsida
 Ephedrales -
Ephedripites "sp." Bolkhovitina and PotoniƩ 1958
Angiospermae
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Tricolporopollenites "sp." Thomson and Pflug 1953 spurge
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 Gunnerales -
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
Liliacidites "sp. 2" Couper 1953
 Chloranthales - Chloranthaceae
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Monosulcites "sp. 1" Cookson and Couper 1953
Magnoliopsida
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Rousea cf. miculipollis Srivastava 1975