en Nammoûra (unit 4) (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 based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; white wackestone

• "rapid shallowing-upward to platform conditions"
• "whitish, poorly bedded limestone...composed mainly of fossiliferous WKST."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60380: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.05.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Ophthalmidiidae
 Miliolida - Rhapydioninidae
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"momoaxon sponge spicules"
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist