Where: Toliara, Madagascar (20.6° S, 45.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 20.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. Alloiteau. 1958. Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar [Monograph of fossil corals from Madagascar]. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 25:1-218 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86482: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.02.2009