98 million years old 

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The Greek historian Herodotus was one of the first to mention the currently famous fossil beds of Hakel and Hajoula in Lebanon. Of these beds, he said that there were fish in the stones. Today, these fossil beds are among the most famous in the world next to the green river formation. The Hakel and Hajoula beds provide clues about the evolution of a variety of marine life, from bottom feeders that are easily caught in sediment. They also provide clues about the faster-moving fish that are not commonly fossilized. In our fossilsshop, we sell fossilized Carpopenaeus callirostris. This is a prehistoric shrimp that lived in the Cretaceous Period, about 100 million years ago in the region that is currently Lebanon.