Sahel Alma (Dubertret collection, MNHN) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

Where: Lebanon (34.0° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.3° N, 31.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Collected by Dubertret; reposited in the MNHN

Primary reference: H. Cappetta. 1980. Les selaciens du Cretace superieur du Liban. II: Batoides. Palaeontolographica Abt. A 168(5-6):149-229 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 92241: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 04.11.2009, edited by Matthew Clapham and Josh Mordaunt

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Octobrachia - Plesioteuthidae
Dorateuthis syriaca1 Woodward 1883
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Texanites texanus1 Roemer 1852 ammonite
Chondrichthyes
 Squaliformes - Squalidae
"Centrophoroides latidens" = Squalus latidens, Centrosqualus primaevus
"Centrophoroides latidens" = Squalus latidens Davis 1887 dogfish shark
 Squaliformes - Somniosidae
Cretascymnus adonis sleeper shark
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark
Hexanchus gracilis Davis 1887 sixgill shark
 Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae
Pristiophorus tumidens Woodward 1932 saw shark
 Rajiformes - Rajidae
Raja ? davisi Fowler 1958 skate
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Rhinobatos intermedius Davis 1887 guitarfish
Rhinobatos primarmatus Woodward 1889 guitarfish
Rhinobatos tenuirostris Davis 1887 guitarfish
Rhinobatos latus Davis 1887 guitarfish
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Sclerorhynchus atavus Woodward 1889 ray
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
 Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Pteroscyllium dubertreti n. gen. n. sp. cat shark
Pteroscyllium signeuxi n. sp. Cappetta 1980 cat shark
Scyliorhinus elongatus Davis 1887 cat shark
 Orectolobiformes -
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889 goblin shark
"Scapanorhynchus lewisii" = Scapanorhynchus lewisi Davis 1887 goblin shark
Anomotodon aff. plicatus Arambourg 1952 goblin shark
 Chimaeriformes - Rhinochimaeridae
Harriotta lehmani n. sp.4 Werdelin 1986 chimaera
Actinopteri
 Salmoniformes -
Spaniodon latus3 Agassiz 1839
Spaniodon elongatus3 Pictet 1850
 Beryciformes -
Gnathoberyx stigmosus2 Patterson 1967