Nahal Neqarot (Cretaceous of Israel)

Where: Israel (30.7° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 9.5° N, 29.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: En Yorqe'am Formation, Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

• The environment of the En Yorqe'amdeposits was an open marine carbonate shelf formed during an early Cenomanian sea level rise.

•Deep subtidal based on rich ammonite faunas

• chalky argillaceous limestone and marl with a thick oyster-rich unit at its base and a rich abundance of invertebrate fossils above, including calcareous sponges,

•corals, brachiopods, gastropods, bivalves, ammonites, echinoids and ostracodes.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Primary reference: M. A. Wilson, O. Vinn, and T. J. Palmer. 2014. Bivalve borings, bioclaustrations and symbiosis in corals from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southern Israel. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 414:243-245 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165864: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 30.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Cyclolitidae
Aspidiscus cristatus Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Ichnofossils -
Gastrochaenolites ampullatus Kelly and Bromley 1984