Also known as Sahel Alma

Where: Lebanon (34.0° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 31.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• The first dating of the section as "Senonian" by Fraas (1878) was refined by Ejel & Dubertret (1966) as Upper Santonian based on planktonic foraminifera.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by T.J. Newbold in 1846

• Repository: Museum of the Geological Society

Primary reference: H. Woodward. 1896. On a fossil Octopus (Calais newboldi, J. de C. Sby. MS.) from the Cretaceous of the Lebanon. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 52:229-234 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213175: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.08.2020

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