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Isalo - Isalo II - Lower, Madagascar

GroupIsalo
FormationIsalo II
MemberLower
Age:242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
IntervalLadinian - Carnian
Lithologysiliciclastic, claystone/sandstone
Number of Collections5
Number of Occurrences14

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
M-28Ranohira, Ihosy District, Ihorombe, MadagascarIsalo - Isalo II - Lower
2 km south of BereketaAtsimo-Andrefana, MadagascarIsalo - Isalo II - Lower
East of SakarahaSakaraha Commune, Sakaraha District, Atsimo-Andrefana, MadagascarIsalo - Isalo II - Lower

Associated Units

Stratigraphic NameAgeLithologyOccurrence Records
Isalo - Isalo II237 - 201 Ma
Mesozoic
10

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Chiniquodon kalanoro
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Chiniquodontidae : Chiniquodon : Chiniquodon kalanoro242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Dadadon isaloi
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Traversodontidae : Dadadon : Dadadon isaloi242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Menadon besairiei
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Traversodontidae : Menadon : Menadon besairiei242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Traversodontidae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Cotylosauria : Traversodontidae242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Kannemeyeriiformes
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Kannemeyeriiformes242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Azendohsaurus : Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Rhynchosauria
order
4Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Rhynchosauria242 - 228 Ma
Triassic
Isalorhynchus genovefae
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Reptilia : Rhynchosauria : Rhynchosauridae : Isalorhynchus : Isalorhynchus genovefae242 - 228 Ma
Triassic

References

Flynn J. J., Parrish J. M., et al (1999) A Triassic fauna from Madagascar, including early dinosaurs, Science 286, 763-765
Flynn J., Parrish J. M., et al (2000) New traversodontid eucynodonts from the Middle or Late Triassic of Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 3 (suppl.), 41A
Flynn J. J., Parrish J. M., et al (2000) New traversodontids (Synapsida, Eucynodontia) from the Triassic of Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20 3, 422-427
Kammerer C. F., Flynn J. J., et al (2008) New material of Menadon besairiei (Cynodontia: Traversodontidae) from the Triassic of Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 2, 445-462
Fröbisch J. (2009) Composition and similarity of global anomodont-bearing tetrapod faunas, Earth-Science Reviews 95, 119-157
Kammerer C. F., Flynn J. J., et al (2010) The first record of a probainognathian (Cynodontia: Chiniquodontidae) from the Triassic of Madagascar, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30 6, 1889-1894
Flynn J. J., Nesbitt S. J., et al (2010) A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible, Palaeontology 53 3, 669-688 doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00954.x
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