Bobasakoa (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (12.8° S, 49.0° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 28.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 98093: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Mayaites aff. rotundus Spath 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Campylites cf. delemontanum" = Neocampylites
"Campylites cf. delemontanum" = Neocampylites ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
"Belemnites ex gr. hastati" = Belemnopsis hastata
"Belemnites ex gr. hastati" = Belemnopsis hastata Blainville 1808 belemnite