Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.2° N, 99.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 58.1° 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: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone
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 2003: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Ammonoidea indet. ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Breviarca habita clam | |
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
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Protocardia texana cockle | |
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam "sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
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Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam | |
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