Also known as Hakel, Haqil

Where: Lebanon (34.2° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 30.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• The precise age of Hâqel and Hjoûla varies according to different authors. ln his comprehensive sedimentological study Hückel (1970) divided the Cenomanian Limestones into seven units and concluded that Hâqel (unite V) and Hjoûla (unite IV) were deposited during the later Lower Cenomanian. Owing to the occurrence of the ammonite Allocrioceras annulatum as a member of the Metoicoceras geslinianum Zone, Wippich & Lehmann (2004) confirmed the conclusions of Hemleben (1977) and dated Hâqel and Hjoûla as Upper Cenomanian (Fig. 2). Dalla Vecchia et al. (2002) considered Hâqel and Hjoûla as lower Upper Cenomanian, because Nammoûra (another fossil-rich locality a few kilometres in the South of Hjoûla and slightly younger than Hâqel and Hjoûla) is dated as Middle Cenomanian.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by Noetling; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: E. Hennig. 1907. Ueber einige Pyknodonten vom Libanon. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 1907:360-371 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117999: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Christina Feng on 30.09.2011

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