Species: insignis BUCKLEY & BROCHU, 1998
Etymology: Latin, insignis, “extraordinary, singular”; referring to the morphology of the mandible as well as the preservation of the type material.
= Genus and species: nova BUCKLEY, BROCHU & KRAUSE, 1997 (Mesoeurocodylian)

Holotype: UA 8654

Locality: MAD 93-35, approximately 1 km south-east of the village of Berivotra, Mahajanga Basin, Mahanjanga Province, North-West Madagascar.

Horizon: Maevarano Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Near the top of the Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: A nearly complete leff mandible and anterior and posterior portion of the right mandible, partial postcranial remains and numerous osteoderms.

Referred material:

Note: Some specimens show paleopathologies (FARKE, 2004).

TURNER & BUCKLEY, 2008

FMNH PR 2389: A nearly complete disarticulated skull.

FMNH PR 2449: Associated left maxilla and premaxilla.

UA 9737: A complete left mandible.

 

Locality: MAD 93-34, approximately 1 km south-east of the village of Berivotra, Mahajanga Basin, Mahanjanga Province, North-West Madagascar.

Horizon: Maevarano Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Near the top of the Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UA 9047: Associated parietal right maxilla, premaxilla and dentary.

 

Locality: MAD 95-07, approximately 1 km south-east of the village of Berivotra, Mahajanga Basin, Mahanjanga Province, North-West Madagascar.

Horizon: Maevarano Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Near the top of the Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UA 9046: Associated parietal and lacrimal.

 

Locality: MAD 99-35, approximately 1 km south-east of the village of Berivotra, Mahajanga Basin, Mahanjanga Province, North-West Madagascar.

Horizon: Maevarano Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Near the top of the Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

FMNH PR 2450: Associated skull material including right squamosal, left lacrimal, articulated left articular, angular and surangular, partial left maxilla, basioccipital, partial pterygoid, right quadrate, right exoccipital, right quadratojugal, partial left quadrate, and partial right maxilla.

 

 

Locality: MAD 01-04, approximately 1 km south-east of the village of Berivotra, Mahajanga Basin, Mahanjanga Province, North-West Madagascar.

Horizon: Maevarano Formation.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Near the top of the Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

FMNH PR 2448: Articulated skull.