Bikfaya, lower Bikfaya Formation (Jurassic to of Lebanon)

Where: Lebanon (33.9° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 31.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bikfaya Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian to Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• samples from 13 and 24 m above the base of the formation; Tithonian age after Toland 2000

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified packstone and lithified floatstone

• medium-bedded, silt-grade peloidal packstones and stromatoporoid floatstones, chert nodules occur sporadically

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. N. Clark and M. K. Boudagher-Fadel. 2001. The larger benthic foraminifers and stratigraphy of the Upper Jurassic, Lower Cretaceous of central Lebanon. Revue de Micropaleontologie 44(3):215-232 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92711: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Hottingeritidae
Alveosepta jaccardi, Alveosepta (Redmondellina) powersi
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Pseudospirocyclina maynci
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp.
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910