Qahmez, Casa Kesserouan (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

Where: Lebanon (34.1° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 9.7° N, 32.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Natural History Museum of the Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Fanar

Primary reference: J. Káčerová and D. Azar. 2022. Mesozoic cockroaches (Insecta: Mesoblattinidae, Blattulidae) from shale and dysodile of Lebanon. Biologia 78:1543-1550 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230287: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Mesoblattinidae
Mesoblattina libanensis n. sp. Káčerová and Azar 2022 cockroach
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