en Nammoûra, upper quarry (unit 3b) (Cretaceous to of Lebanon)

Also known as al Nammoûra, al Gabour, Aïn el Gârboûr

Where: Kesrouâne, Lebanon (34.1° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.9° N, 30.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; tabular, intraclastic, gray, green wackestone

• "pale blue-grey to greenish (pale yellow to beige when srongly weathered) 'lithographic' limestones with tabular bedding and plane-parallel lamination. They are very fine-grained, 'varved', intraclastic MDST-WKST-PKST, without microfossils...chert lenses and thin layers and sometimes very densely packed."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (in situ), ,

• Most materials collected during quarrying and found in rock shops or private collections, but some in museums and limited in situ studies have been done.

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia and S. Venturini. 1999. The Middle Cenomanian Lagerstaette of Al Nammoura (Kesrouâne Caza, N. Lebanon). Rivista del Museo Civio di Scienzi Naturali "E. Caffi" 20(suppl.):75-77 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60285: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 08.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano, Philip Mannion, David Nicholson and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Protostegidae
Rhinochelys nammourensis n. sp.6 Tong et al. 2006 sea turtle
MCSNM V-3933
 Squamata - Pachyophidae
"Podophis descouensi n. gen. n. sp." = Eupodophis descouensi5
"Podophis descouensi n. gen. n. sp." = Eupodophis descouensi5 Rage and Escuillié 2000 snake
2 specimens described in Rieppel and Head (2004)
 Squamata - Dolichosauridae
Pontosaurus kornhuberi n. sp.1 Caldwell 2006 squamates
"very close to Pontosaurus"
Aphanizocnemus libanensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Dal Sasso and Pinna 1997 squamates
MSNM V783 (holotype skeleton). Originally stated (Dalla Vecchia et al 1997): Roland Anhoury collection (accessioned in 1980s) and 'lithographic slab of limestone, similar to the ichthyolyte levels coming from Hakel'; later revised (Dalla Vecchia et al. 2002)
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
articulated phalanges; from shop in Jbaïl
Aves
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Aves indet.4 Linnaeus 1758 bird
MCSNM V-3932, 3883
 Enantiornithes - Avisauridae
Enantiophoenix electrophyla n. gen. n. sp.2 Cau and Arduini 2008 bird
MCSNM V-3882a (larger slab) and 3882b (smaller slab) - disarticulated skeleton, including portions of the shoulder and pelvic girdles as well as the hindlimb