Dangovato (Jurassic to of Madagascar)

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

• marls, sand- and siltstones, with calcareous and ferruginous oolitic horizons

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
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Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya sp. Agassiz 1842 clam
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
? Arcomya sp. Agassiz 1838 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Seebachia sp. Holub and Neumayr 1882 clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Cox 1937 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Megacucullaea sp. Rennie 1936 clam
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella "sp. 2" Jones 1849 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
 Podocopida -