PBDB Collection

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

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Reptilia
Squamata - Dolichosauridae	Aphanizocnemus libanensis n. gen. n. sp.³, Pontosaurus kornhuberi n. sp.¹ 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) Pontosaurus kornhuberi n. sp.¹ Caldwell 2006 squamates "very close to Pontosaurus"
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)
Testudines - Protostegidae	Rhinochelys nammourensis n. sp.⁶ Rhinochelys nammourensis n. sp.⁶ Tong et al. 2006 sea turtle MCSNM V-3933
Theropoda -	Theropoda indet. Theropoda indet. theropod articulated phalanges; from shop in Jbaïl
Aves
-	Aves indet.⁴ Aves indet.⁴ Linnaeus 1758 bird MCSNM V-3932, 3883
Enantiornithes - Avisauridae	Enantiophoenix electrophyla n. gen. n. sp.² 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

¹Caldwell 2006; ²Cau and Arduini 2008; ³Dal Sasso and Pinna 1997; ⁴Dalla Vecchia et al. 2002; ⁵Rage and Escuillié 2000; ⁶Tong et al. 2006