Earliest Aptian Caprinidae (Bivalvia, Hippuritida) from Lebanon

Carnets de Geologie: Notebooks of geology

关键词: Offneria;    rudists;    Aptian;    Bedoulian;    Jezzinian;    Beirut;    Lebanon;   

学科分类：地质学

来源: Carnets de Geologie

【 摘 要 】

The presence in Lebanon of Offneria murgensis and Offneria nicolinae, two characteristic components of the Early Aptian Arabo-African rudist faunas, fills a distributional gap of the corresponding assemblage between the Arabic and African occurrences, on the one hand, and the Apulian occurrences, on the other hand. This fauna bears out the palaeogeographic placement of Lebanon on the southern Mediterranean Tethys margin established by palaeostructural reconstructions. The associated micropaleontological elements suggest an earliest Aptian age (early Bedoulian) for the Offneria murgensis - O. nicolinae assemblage found in the

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