K2-2(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.4° N, 99.0° 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: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray, 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 2016: 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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Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam