Also known as Haqel, Haqil
Where: Lebanon (34.2° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 13.0° N, 30.4° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
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.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts
Collection methods: quarrying
• Repository: American University of Beirut (kept at MNHN, Paris)
Primary reference: A. S. Woodward. 1942. Some new and little-known Upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 9:537-568 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 221080: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.07.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Hajulia multidens n. gen. n. sp.
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Aipichthys oblongus n. sp.3
Aipichthys oblongus n. sp.3 Gayet 1980 | |
Coelorhynchus libanicus Woodward 1942 grenadiers | |
Pharmacichthys venenifer n. gen. n. sp.
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Hemisaurida hakelensis n. sp.2
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Osteichthyes | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Cyclobatis longicaudatus n. sp.
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Hakelia laticauda | |
Hakelia laticauda Pictet 1850 |