K1-3(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.4° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 57.3° 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

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 2006: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula subspatulata
Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek 1855
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Crassatellina oblonga
Crassatellina oblonga clam
abundant
Gastropoda
 Mesogastropoda -
Mesogastropoda indet.
Mesogastropoda indet. Thiele 1925 snail
common - originally entered as "Mesogastropoda sp."