Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (14.7° S, 47.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° S, 34.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Albian (109.0 - 105.3 Ma)
• unit 3
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, argillaceous sandstone
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 86503: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2009, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling