MCZ Invertebrate Paleontology 198915

Pecten planicosta Hamlin

Date Collected:

[date unknown] prior to 2023-01-23

Asia: Lebanon | Beirut District

occurrenceID: https://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/guid/MCZ:IP:198915 JSON-LD

Current Identification
Pecten planicosta [=unavailable: manuscript name] Hamlin
Animalia Mollusca Bivalvia Pectinida Pectinidae
Determiner: Charles Edward Hamlinlinked data icon on 2023-01-30
Nature of ID: expert ID

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Part Condition Disposition Count
part (fossil) good in collection 1 History

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  • Manuscript type.

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  • Continent:
  • Asia
  • Country:
  • Lebanon
  • dwc:highergeographyID:
  • http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/1000126 linked data icon
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Beirut District
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • [no verbatim locality data]
  • Erathem/Era:
  • Mesozoic By: [No Agent]
  • Period/System:
  • Cretaceous By: [No Agent]
  • Locality Remarks:
  • General locality for fossils in the Bird, Merrill, Thomson and Congregational House collections; the locality summary in Hamlin, 1884, pg. 1-2 is interpreted to mean all potential collecting localities are within the Beirut district as defined below. From Hamlin, 1884, pg. 1-2, “Unfortunately, however, as is usual with collections made by other than experienced or professional hands, notes are wanting of the exact localities with a few exceptions, and of the nature and position of the strata without exception, from which the fossils of the several lots were taken. This deficiency renders it necessary to state here how far the localities represented by the different collections can be identified. Dr. Merrill's collection was put into my hands by himself, bearing labels to distinguish specimens found at points outside of the district where the greater part were procured, and for the rest a written statement was made, at my request, that "almost all the specimens came from the vicinity of Beirut, Abeih, Dog River (Nahr el Kelb) a few miles north of Beirut, and the mountains between this river and the Cedars, a mountainous district which extends more than twenty and not over thirty miles north and south, with Beirut and Dog River as a centre." To this portion of country I shall refer for convenience, in the following pages, as the Beirut district. The Bird collection was received also from Dr. Merrill in person, with the oral statement that, as he understood, it was gathered at Abeih and in its vicinity. The fact that some of the shells are of species already recorded as from that locality, and that the rock material which makes up the fossils, adheres to them, or fills their interiors, is such as is known to characterize the richly fossiliferous strata of Abeih, constitutes strong internal evidence that most of the specimens are actually from the place from which they are said to come. Yet under the title Jurassic Ammonites (pages 9, 10) reasons are given for the conclusion that the three species from the Bird collection there named could not have come from Abeih, where only Cretaceous strata are known to occur, but must have been taken from beds older than the Cretaceous, such as in all Syria, so far as at present traced, are restricted to one narrow area, lying entirely without the circle of Beirut, and upon the slope of Mount Hermon. Of the Thomson and Congregational House collections it can only be affirmed that they are from "Lebanon," but the testimony of the specimens themselves goes to make it very highly probable that all of them had their origin within what we have termed the Beirut district.”
  • Georeference:
  • 33.8833330°, 35.5000000° (Error radius: 50634m) By: Eva M. Biedron on 2023-01-23 (Source: GEOLocate)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • rock/outcrop
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1700-01-01 / 2023-01-23
  • Verbatim Date:
  • [no verbatim date data]
  • Collecting Event Remarks:
  • Geological context assumed to be Cretaceous, see Hamlin, 1884. General locality for fossils in the Bird, Merrill, Thomson and Congregational House collections; the locality summary in Hamlin, 1884, pg. 1-2 is interpreted to mean all potential collecting localities are within the Beirut district as in Hamlin, 1884, pg. 1-2.
  • Collector:
  • Selah Merrill

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