Also known as Berifitra

Where: Mahajanga, Madagascar (15.9° S, 46.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° S, 38.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maevarano Formation, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in the 1960s

• not collected - destroyed during construction of road

Primary reference: M. Collignon. 1968. Le Crétacé Supérieur de Madagascar [The Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar]. Cretaceous-Tertiary Formations of South India. Geological Society of India Memoir 2:320-334 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60378: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.05.2006