Where: Madagascar (16.3° S, 47.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° S, 47.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Radiocarbon dates (mean calibrated age) for Ampasambazimba range from 16,425 to 875 yr BP (n=43) (Crowley, 2010)
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the MNHN
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 95824: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.04.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Plesiorycteropus germainepetterae n. sp. MacPhee 1994 placental | |
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