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

Collected in 1998

Collection methods: quarrying

• Repository: Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, Canada (TMP)

Primary reference: O. V. Vernygora and A. M. Murray. 2021. Morphological variation among the species of Armigatus (Teleostei, Clupeomorpha, Ellimmichthyiformes) and new material of Armigatus alticorpus from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Hakel, Lebanon. Cretaceous Research 117:1-13 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221149: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Josh Mordaunt on 13.07.2021

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