Bekka Valley: Late/Upper Miocene, Lebanon
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium sp.
Kaup 1829
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus erymanthius
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Tragocerus amaltheus
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Tragocerus sp.
Gaudry 1861
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Palaeoreas lindermayeri
(Wagner 1848)
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| original and current combination Antilope lindermayeri | ||||||||||
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Palaeoryx cf. malori
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Hemistrepsiceros zitteli
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Protoryx sp.
Forsyth Major 1891
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Pseudotragus cf. capricornis
Schlosser 1904
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| recombined as Protoryx capricornis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion sp. 1
de Christol 1832
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Hipparion sp. 2
de Christol 1832
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Neritidae
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Neritina sp.
Lamarck 1816
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbis major
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Planorbis umbilicatus
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Planorbis cornu
Brongniart 1810
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| recombined as Planorbarius cornu | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Hydrobiidae
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Hydrobia fraasi
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Gastropoda
- Melanopsidae
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Melanopsis sp.
Férussac 1807
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Geography
| Country: | Lebanon |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 35.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.6° North, 35.4° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty,sandy,conglomeratic marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | lacustrine - large |
| Geology comments: Local sections described as "marls, sandy marls, blue clays, conglomerates, marly limestones [pg. 666]. Section near Kefraya described as:
" a) Greyish-blue compact clays with tiny quartz grains, comprising fragments of carbonized plants; locality with fragments of chitinous insect skeletons. b) Greyish-blue, clayey, very hard marls with fossil remains of mammals, turtles, fishes, molluscs, and ostracods. c) Yellowish-brown sandy marls with gravel, gastropod remains, etc. The thickness of these deposits (a-c) is about 2 m and the are slightly inclined towards the west-northwest (pg. 666)". | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 34399 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Head | Enterer: | J. Head |
| Modifier: | J. Head | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-08-29 11:47:45 | Last modified: | 2003-08-29 14:48:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-08-29 11:47:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9049. | 5% 17820 | M. Malez and A. Forsten. 1989. Hipparion from the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Géobios 22(5):665-670 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy] |