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Several fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Madagascar have provided fossils, most notably the Maastrichtian Maevarano Formation and the Jurassic Isalo III Formation.The oldest fossil-bearing formations date to ages before the break-up of Madagascar from Africa and India; the units of the Sakoa Group are found in both India and Madagascar, while the Beaufort Group is shared with southern Africa.
This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from the Indian subcontinent or Madagascar. Though widely separated today, the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar were connected throughout much of the Mesozoic and shared similar dinosaur faunas, distinct from what has been found on other modern African and Asian landmasses.
Prehistoric animals of Madagascar (3 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Fossils of Madagascar" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total.
All Majungasaurus fossils have been found in the Mahajanga Province of Madagascar, most within 50 kilometers (31 mi) to the southeast of the provincial capital, Mahajanga (marked with a red dot on the map). All specimens of Majungasaurus have been recovered from the Maevarano Formation in the Mahajanga Province in northwestern
This category concerns all articles about animals in the fossil record of Madagascar. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C.
The Middle Jurassic Isalo III Formation contains fossil dinosaurs. Typical Gondwanan flora of Glossopteris is found in the Permian formations in Madagascar. The four main Mesozoic sedimentary basins, the Diego Basin, the Majunga Basin, the Morondava Basin and the eastern coast Basin, contain a variety of ammonite faunas from the Permian ...
The Berivotra Formation is a Maastrichtian sedimentary formation of the Mahajanga Basin in Boeny, Madagascar. The claystones of the formation were deposited in a shallow marine environment . The Berivotra Formation overlies the fossil-rich Maevarano Formation , in which more fossils of Beelzebufo , also recovered from the Berivotra Formation ...
The Bemaraha Formation is a Middle Jurassic (early Bajocian to early Bathonian) geological formation of the Morondava Basin of Madagascar. The lime mudstones, grainstones and limestones of the formation were deposited in lagoonal and reefal environments. Fossils of groups of invertebrates and theropod and sauropod tracks have been found in the ...