C3-6 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.3° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 57.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kiowa Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic, gray, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. W. Scott. 1970. Paleoecology and Paleontology of the Lower Cretaceous Kiowa Formation, Kansas. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions (52)1-94 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 1999: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
common
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae