ammonites
Androiavy, unit 3 (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

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