Genus: Majungatholus SUES & TAQUET, 1979

Species: atopus SUES & TAQUET, 1979
Etymology: Greek, “strange or out of place”.

Referred material:

ROGERS, KRAUSE & ROGERS, 2003

Locality: Quarry MAD 96-21, Mahajanga Basin, Mahajana Province, Northwestern Madagascar.

Horizon: Continental “Maevarano Formation”.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

UA 8678: Fragmentary specimen of a subadult.
Note: Tooth marks on rib (field number 96300-C) from another Majungatholus.

 

SAMPSON, WITMER, FORSTER, KRAUSE, O’CONNOR, DODSON & RAVOAVY, 1998

Locality: Quarry MAD 96-01, Mahajanga Basin, Mahajana Province, Northwestern Madagascar.

Horizon: Continental “Maevarano Formation”.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Campanian Stage?, Senonian Subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

FMNH PR2100: Nearly complete skull, 25 associated caudal vertebrae with numerous chevrons.
Note: Tooth marks on a caudal neural arch (field number 96313-1), chevrons (field number 96212-44C, 96313-31D, 96313-22), and a transverse process (field number 96313-31) from another Majungatholus (ROGERS, KRAUSE & ROGERS, 2003).