Near Antsirabe: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Madagascar
collected by F. R. Wulsin

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylus robustus Grandidier and Vaillant 1872
recombined as Voay robustus
MCZ 1006 (skull) - neotype of Voay robustus
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar
Coordinates: 19.9° South, 47.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.9° South, 47.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Although most Quaternary deposits in Madagascar are Holocene, some of the radiocarbon dates reported from Antsirabe by Burney et al. (2004) are slightly older than 20 Ka. It is thus possible that MCZ 1006 is from the uppermost part of the Pleistocene" (Brochu 2007)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MCZ
Collectors:F. R. Wulsin
Metadata
Database number:143586
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-04-25 03:27:37 Last modified:2013-04-24 12:27:37
Access level:the public Released:2013-04-25 03:27:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
46518. C. C. Mook. 1921. Description of a skull of the extinct Madagascar crocodile, Crocodilus robustus Vaillant and Grandidier. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 44:25-33 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]