Amboloando (Jurassic of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (20.6° S, 45.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.6° S, 20.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

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 98174: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Peltoceras metamorphicum Spath 1931 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
"Grossouvria kontkiewieczi" = Choffatia, "Kinkeliniceras aff. varuna" = Kinkeliniceras angygaster, "Kinkeliniceras cf. discoideum" = Kinkeliniceras angygaster, "Kinkeliniceras crassiplanula" = Obtusicostites obtusicosta, Subgrossouvria gudjinsirensis
"Grossouvria kontkiewieczi" = Choffatia ammonite
"Kinkeliniceras aff. varuna" = Kinkeliniceras angygaster Waagen 1875 ammonite
"Kinkeliniceras cf. discoideum" = Kinkeliniceras angygaster Waagen 1875 ammonite
"Kinkeliniceras crassiplanula" = Obtusicostites obtusicosta Waagen 1875 ammonite
Subgrossouvria gudjinsirensis Waagen 1875 ammonite