en Nammoûra (unit 6) (Cretaceous 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 based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; tabular, brown, gray wackestone

• "platform facies"
• "Well-bedded pale brown and grey limestone, with cm-dm, tabular layers of WKST and MDT-WKST often with abundant microfauna."

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: F. M. Dalla Vecchia, S. Venturini, and M. Tentor. 2002. The Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Konservat-Lagerstätte of en Nammoûra (Kesrouâne Province), northern Lebanon. Bollettino della Società Geologica Italiana 41(1):51-68 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 86183: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Ophthalmidiidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
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