En Nammoura (Capasso CLC collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

Where: Lebanon (34.1° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 12.9° N, 30.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• En Nammoura limestone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• En Nammoura is a small village on the south side of the valley of the Adonis River (Fig. 1c, d). Near the village, just beyond the monastery of Mar ed Inda, some quarries for extraction of limestone slabs were opened in the fossiliferous limestone. We calculate, more or less, that for each discovery of a fossil, we examined c. 60 square meters of absolutely sterile limestone surfaces.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: The Capasso collection, legally registered at the State Soprintendenza of Salerno (CLC)

Primary reference: L. L. Capasso, P. A. Saad, and L. Tavarne. 2009. Nursallia tethysensis sp. nov., a new pycnodont fish (Neopterygii: †Halecostomi) from the Cenomanian of Lebanon. 79:117-136 [M. Clapham/S. Hegde/S. Hegde]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221170: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Shreya Hegde on 14.07.2021, edited by Matthew Clapham and Josh Mordaunt

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Nursallia tethysensis
Nursallia tethysensis Capasso et al. 2009
S.136, S.363, S.458
 Pycnodontiformes -
Acrorhinichthys poyatoi n. gen. n. sp.3
Acrorhinichthys poyatoi n. gen. n. sp.3 Taverne and Capasso 2015
Holotype- CLC S-630a
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
Lebrunichthys nammourensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Lebrunichthys nammourensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Taverne and Capasso 2020
CLC S-402
 Osteoglossiformes - Pantodontidae
Prognathoglossum kalassyi n. gen. n. sp.2
Prognathoglossum kalassyi n. gen. n. sp.2 Taverne and Capasso 2012
Holotype- CLC S-483
 Ellimmichthyiformes - Sorbinichthyidae
Sorbinichthys elusivo n. gen. n. sp.1
Sorbinichthys elusivo n. gen. n. sp.1 Bannikov and Bacchia 2000
1Bannikov and Bacchia 2000; 2Taverne and Capasso 2012; 3Taverne and Capasso 2015; 4Taverne and Capasso 2020