ammonites
Ampanihy (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (16.5° S, 46.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 32.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (112.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• Lemuroceras zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 86504: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.02.2009