Where: Lebanon (33.9° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 31.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bikfaya Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian to Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• sample from near the top (60 m) of the formation; Tithonian age after Toland 2000
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 92712: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 |