Where: Madagascar (22.1° S, 44.7° E: paleocoordinates 22.1° S, 44.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Presumed to be Holocene in age, which is corroborated by two radiocarbon dates of subfossil bones excavated from Ampoza: 1910 +/- 120 B.P. (1969, GaK-2309, Mahk & Sourdat 1972), and 1350 +/- 60 B.P. (Beta-72676 CAMS-13677, Goodman & Rakotondravony 1996)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Franco-Anglo-Américaine expedition in 1929; reposited in the AMNH, BMNH, MNHN
• Material split between the three supporting institutions of the expedition, British Museum (Natural History), American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), and Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle.
Primary reference: S. M. Goodman. 2000. A description of a new species of Brachypteracias (Family Brachypteraciidae) from the Holocene of Madagascar. Ostrich 71:318-322 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195019: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Brachypteracias langrandi n. sp.
Brachypteracias langrandi n. sp. Goodman 2000 Ampoza ground roller | |
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