Where: Madagascar (19.9° S, 47.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.9° S, 47.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• subfossil. Radiocarbon dates from Antsirabe mostly Pleistocene (19250 to 17100 YBP) but also young Holocene (90 YBP).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: R. D. E. MacPhee. 1994. Morphology, adaptations, and relationships of Plesiorycteropus, and a diagnosis of a new order of eutherian mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 220:1-214 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 95827: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.04.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham

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