page_title: Berthe Rakotosamimanana
section_title: First descriptions
hierarchical_section_title: Berthe Rakotosamimanana / Research / First descriptions
caption_attribution_description: English: Skull of the extinct sloth lemur, Babakotia radofilai
context_page_description: Berthe Rakotosamimanana was a primatologist and palaeontologist from Madagascar.
context_section_description: Rakotosamimanana was part of the teams which first described:
  † Babakotia, a lemur genus that died out less than 1000 years ago.
  † Ambondro mahabo, an early mammal from the Malagasy Middle Jurassic.
caption: Babakotia radofilai skull
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