Bekoratsaka (Jurassic of Madagascar)
Where: Madagascar (16.1° S, 47.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° S, 25.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• unit 2, 1 m thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: H. Besairie and M. Collignon. 1972. Geologie de Madagascar I. Les Terrains Sedimentaires. Annales Geologiques de Madagascar 35:1-463 [A. Rees/A. Rees] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98122: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.09.2010