Madagascar Basin: Neogene, Madagascar

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis ferox Risso 1826
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810
Isurus paucus Guitart-Manday 1966
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Mitsukurina owstoni
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias superciliosus (Lowe 1840)
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Parotodus benedeni (Le Hon 1871)
Carcharocles megalodon (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Otodus megalodon
Specimen exhibited in the Geology collection of the Museum of Natural History of Paris
Mammalia - Cetacea - Ziphiidae
Mesoplodon sp. Gervais 1850
Mammalia - Cetacea - Kogiidae
Kogia sp. Gray 1846
Mammalia - Cetacea - Delphinidae
Grampus griseus (Cuvier 1812)
Stenella sp. (Gray 1866)
Delphinus sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:Madagascar
Coordinates: 24.4° South, 58.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.2° South, 57.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period:Neogene
Key time interval:Neogene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: possibly Calabrian. Pleistocene age needs to be tested
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: specimens are found in the center of manganese nodules
Environment:basinal (siliceous)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taphonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55451
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-10-25 12:49:12 Last modified:2016-06-02 10:40:09
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-25 12:49:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14950. C. Roux and P. Geistodoerfer. 1988. Dents de requins et bulles tympaniques de cetaces: Noyaux de nodules polymetalliques recoltes dans L'Ocean Indien. Cybium 12(2):129-137 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]