en Nammoûra (unit 8) (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; intraclastic wackestone and tabular, gray, yellow, muddy limestone

• "platform facies"
• "Well-bedded yellowish to grey marly limestone, with prevailing cm-dm tabular beds, and at least six thicker limestone beds...At the base of the unit are intercalations of thinly-bedded, sometimes nodular, fine-grained intraclastic MDST-WKST with chert. Intraclastic MDST-WKSTs and WKSTs rich in foraminifers and ostracods prevail in the thick beds above."

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 86187: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 26.01.2009

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Nezzazate sp., Nubecolariidae indet.
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
Biconcava sp.
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Pseudorhapydionina laurinensis
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod