Where: Madagascar (23.1° S, 44.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 17.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 152.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: W. Mette. 2004. Middle to Upper Jurassic sedimentary sequences and marine biota of the early Indian Ocean (SW Madagascar): some biostratigraphic, palaeoecologic and palaeobiogeographic conclusions. Journal of African Earth Sciences 38:331-342 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101721: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam | |
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Seebachia sp. Holub and Neumayr 1882 clam | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster | |
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Cox 1937 clam | |
Megacucullaea sp. Rennie 1936 clam | |
Ostracoda | |
Cytherella "sp. 2" Jones 1849 ostracod | |
Pirileberis tenuisulcata ostracod | |
Majungaella glabra ostracod
Majungaella perforata ostracod
Majungaella "sp. 1" ostracod
Majungaella sp. ostracod |