Mt. Raynaud, Hysteroceras zone (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Antsiranana, Madagascar (12.5° S, 49.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.6° S, 38.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hysteroceras binum ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• Hysteroceras binum zone, lower Upper Albian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy marl

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 98215: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
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unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
"Tetragonites rectangularis" = Tetragonites timotheanus rectangularis Wiedmann 1962 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Uhligella walleranti Jacob 1908 ammonite
var. jacobi
Puzosia aff. angladei Savn 1890 ammonite
"Puzosia mayoriana" = Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lyelliceratidae
"Protissotia madagascariensis" = Neophlycticeras (Protissotia) itierianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Brancoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Labeceratidae
Labeceras plasticum Spath 1925 ammonite
Myloceras joffrei Boule et al. 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini
"Lechites gaudini" = Lechites (Lechites) gaudini Pictet and Campiche 1861 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
"Hamites cf. largesulcatus" = Glyptoxoceras largesulcatum
"Hamites cf. largesulcatus" = Glyptoxoceras largesulcatum Forbes 1846 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Idiohamites aff. spiniger Sowerby 1818 ammonite
Anisoceras armatum Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
"Stomohamites subvirgulatus" = Hamites subvirgulatus Spath 1941 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Phylloceras velledae" = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) velledae Michelin 1834 ammonite
Phylloceras seresitense Pervinquière 1907 ammonite
"Phylloceras lateumbilicatum" = Phylloceras (Gyrophylloceras) lateumbilicatum Pervinquière 1907 ammonite