Hakel (MCSN Verona collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

Also known as Haqel, Haqil

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona (MCSNV)

Primary reference: J. C. Tyler and L. Sorbini. 1996. New superfamily and three new families of tetraodontiform fishes from the Upper Cretaceous: The earliest and most morphologically primitive plectognaths. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 82:1-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127284: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 08.05.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Tetraodontiformes -
Plectocretacicus clarae n. gen. n. sp.
Plectocretacicus clarae n. gen. n. sp. Sorbini 1979