Saksakiye section (Miocene of Lebanon)

Where: Lebanon (33.4° N, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 34.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lithothamnium undulatum zone, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. S. Edgell and P. W. Basson. 1975. Calcareous algae from the Miocene of Lebanon. Micropaleontology 21(2):165-184 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 147455: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium undulatum" = Lithothamnion
Mesophyllum laffittei Lemoine 1939
Lithophyllum bonyense Johnson 1964