Amberomena (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (22.3° S, 44.6° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° S, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 98188: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
"Parawedekindia arduennensis" = Peltoceratoides (Parawedekindia) arduennensis d'Orbigny 1848 ammonite
Parawedekindia torosa Oppel 1866 ammonite
"Prieserites interscissus" = Peltoceratoides interscissus Uhlig 1881 ammonite
Euaspidoceras babeaui d'Orbigny 1848 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Dhosaites primus Spath 1928 ammonite
Mayaites obesus ammonite
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Pleurotomaria cf. uniformis" = Longstaffia uniformis
"Pleurotomaria cf. uniformis" = Longstaffia uniformis Cowper Reed 1901 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae