Bet-Meir Formation

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| age = Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)

| period = Cretaceous

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The Bet-Meir Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in the West Bank (Palestine). Pterosaur fossils have been recovered from the formation, in addition to several ray-finned fish and early snakes, most of which are known from the Ein Yabrud quarries. It underlies the just slightly younger Amminadav Formation, and it is uncertain whether most of the paleobiota belong to one formation or the other.{{Cite web |title=Bet-Meir, West Bank, Palestine |url=https://www.mindat.org/paleo_strat.php?id=1899 |website=mindat.org}}{{Cite web |title=Bet Meir or Amminadav, West Bank, Palestine |url=https://www.mindat.org/paleo_strat.php?id=1898 |website=mindat.org}}

Paleobiota

The majority of species here cannot be confidently assigned the Bet-Meir Formation, and some may instead belong to the younger Amminadav Formation.{{Cite journal |author=Bouziane Khalloufi, René Zaragüeta-Bagils & Hervé Lelièvre |year=2010 |title=Rhombichthys intoccabilis, gen. et sp. nov. (Ellimmichthyiformes, Clupeomorpha, Teleostei), from the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Ein Yabrud, Middle East: anatomial descriptions and phylogenetic implications |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=30 |issue=1 |pages=57–67 |bibcode=2010JVPal..30...57K |doi=10.1080/02724630903409089 |s2cid=86625975|doi-access=free }}

= Fish =

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Aipichthyoides

|A. galeatus

A. formosus

|An aipichthyoidid lamprimorph

Dercetoides

|D. venator

|A dercetid aulopiform

Hastichthys

|H. gracilis

|A dercetid aulopiform

Enchodus

|E. brevis

|An enchodontid aulopiform

Judeichthys

|J. haasi

|A gonorynchid

Judeoberyx

|J. princeps

|A trachichthyoid trachichthyform

Pachyamia

|P. latimaxillaris

|An amiid

Parenchodus

|P. longipterygius

|An enchodontid aulopiform

Pharmacichthys

|P. judensis

|A pharmacichthyid lamprimorph

Ramallichthys

|R. orientalis

|A gonorynchid

Rhombichthys

|R. intoccabilis

|A paraclupeid clupeomorph

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Saurorhamphus

|S. judeaensis

|A eurypholid aulopiform

Scalacurvichthys

|S. naishi

|A pycnodontid

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Serrilepis

|S. longidens

|A halecid aulopiform

Yabrudichthys

|Y. striatus

|An enchodontoid aulopiform

= Reptiles =

== Turtles ==

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Algorachelus

|A. parvus

|A bothremyid side-necked turtle

Pelomedusidae

|indet.

|An indeterminate pelomedusid side-necked turtle

== Squamates ==

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Haasiasaurus

|H. gittelmani

|An early mosasaur

Haasiophis

|H. terrasanctus

|A simoliophiid snake, notable for its hindlimbs

Mesoleptos

|M. zendrinii{{Cite journal |last1=Cabezuelo-Hernández |first1=Alberto |last2=Pérez-García |first2=Adán |date=2023 |title=A New Species of the Pythonomorph Carentonosaurus from the Cenomanian of Algora (Guadalajara, Central Spain) |journal=Animals |language=en |volume=13 |issue=7 |pages=1197 |doi=10.3390/ani13071197 |pmid=37048453 |pmc=10093179 |issn=2076-2615 |doi-access=free }}

|A basal mosasauroid

Pachyrhachis

|P. problematicus

|A simoliophiid snake, notable for its hindlimbs