Hakel (AUB collection): Late/Upper Cenomanian, Lebanon

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Albuliformes - Albulidae
Hajulia multidens n. gen., n. sp. Woodward 1942
1 specimen
AUB 100509
Actinopteri - Beryciformes - Pharmacichthyidae
Pharmacichthys venenifer n. gen., n. sp. Woodward 1942
2 specimens
AUB 104691(104699), 101872
Actinopteri - Gadiformes - Macrouridae
Coelorhynchus libanicus Woodward 1942
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Aipichthyidae
Aipichthys oblongus n. sp. Gayet 1980
Otero and Gayet 1996
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Halecidae
Hemisaurida hakelensis n. sp. Goody 1969
Goody 1969 2 specimens
AUB 104710/104786, 106805/106819
unclassified
Aphanepygus dorsalis (Davis 1887)
Bartram 1977 2 specimens
AUB 103932, 104741
Ophiopsiformes - Ophiopsiellidae
Petalopteryx syriacus Pictet 1850
1 specimen
AUB C.289
Chondrichthyes - Trygonidae
Cyclobatis longicaudatus n. sp. Woodward 1942
1 specimen
AUB C.413
unclassified
Hakelia laticauda (Pictet 1850)
see common names

Geography
Country:Lebanon
Coordinates: 34.2° North, 35.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:13.0° North, 30.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: Metoicoceras geslinianum
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The precise age of Hâqel and Hjoûla varies according to different authors. ln his comprehensive sedimentological study Hückel (1970) divided the Cenomanian Limestones into seven units and concluded that Hâqel (unite V) and Hjoûla (unite IV) were deposited during the later Lower Cenomanian. Owing to the occurrence of the ammonite Allocrioceras annulatum as a member of the Metoicoceras geslinianum Zone, Wippich & Lehmann (2004) confirmed the conclusions of Hemleben (1977) and dated Hâqel and Hjoûla as Upper Cenomanian (Fig. 2). Dalla Vecchia et al. (2002) considered Hâqel and Hjoûla as lower Upper Cenomanian, because Nammoûra (another fossil-rich locality a few kilometres in the South of Hjoûla and slightly younger than Hâqel and Hjoûla) is dated as Middle Cenomanian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,soft parts
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: American University of Beirut (kept at MNHN, Paris)
Metadata
Also known as:Haqel, Haqil
Database number:221080
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-07-03 12:47:59 Last modified:2021-07-17 14:51:28
Access level:the public Released:2021-07-03 12:47:59
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
77432. A. S. Woodward. 1942. Some new and little-known Upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 9:537-568 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

77434 A. Bartram. 1977. A problematical Upper Cretaceous holostean fish genus Aphanepygus. Journal of Natural History 11:361-370 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
77870 P. C. Goody. 1969. The relationships of certain Upper Cretaceous teleosts with special reference to the Myctophoids. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement 7:1-255 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
77296 O. Otero and M. Gayet. 1996. Anatomy and phylogeny of the Aipichthyoidea nov. of the Cenomanian Tethys and their place in the Acanthomorpha (Teleostei). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 202:313-344 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt/M. Clapham]