Excerpt from Geological Magazine, 1883, Vol. 10
Some years ago my friend Mr. Robert Damon, F. G. S., of Weymouth, visited the Cretaceous deposits of the Lebanon, and when at that place he was so fortunate as to make the acquaintance of the Rev. E. R. Lewis, M. A., F. G. S., Professor in the Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, Syria.
Since that date Prof. Lewis has sent home many interesting collections of fossils from the now classical localities of Hakel and Sahel-Alma. The choicest of these pal?ontological treasures are to be found preserved in the British Museum, Natural History Collection, Cromwell Road.
Of the various organic remains met with in these Lebanon Cretaceous rocks, fossil Fishes are the prevalent type. Only a very few genera and species from this district, so rich in ichthyological treasures, have at present been described; it is to be hoped, however, that some expert may ere long be tempted to devote his attention to their fuller elucidation.
I have given a notice of two new and remarkably interesting types of Crustacea from Hakel, viz. Squilla Lewisii, and Limulus Syriacus (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1879, vol. xxxv. pl. xxvi. pp. 552-556), but many more Crustaceans remain to be figured.
I propose on the present occasion to notice the occurrence of a new species of decapodous Dibranchiate Cephalopod represented by a small but nearly entire individual preserved on a slab of limestone from Sahel Alma.
"Sahel Alma," writes Prof. E. R. Lewis, "may be visited from Beirut in a single day, with an allowance of two or three hours at the locality. We leave Beirut early, pass by the traditional site of St. George"s encounter with the Dragon, canter over the sandy beach of St. George"s Bay, and stumble on the remains of an old Roman road which cuts through a cave, leaving exposed to this day a breccia of bone, flint flakes, etc. In specimens of this, submitted to Dr. Fraas, he has recognized Bos priscus, superior and inferior molar, Rhinoceros tichorhinus, inferior molar.
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