Belambo (Cretaceous of Madagascar)

Where: Madagascar (16.6° S, 46.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 31.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 98230: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.09.2010

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
 Holectypoida - Discoididae
Discoidea conica sea urchin
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Ephamulina trituberculata" = Epanisoceras
"Ephamulina trituberculata" = Epanisoceras ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum
"Douvilleiceras mamillatum" = Douvilleiceras mammillatum Schlotheim 1813 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Planaxidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae