Where: Rice County, Kansas (38.4° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 56.0° 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: foreshore; gray, carbonaceous sandstone
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 2024: 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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| Lingulata | |
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Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek 1855 | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella kansasensis Meek 1871 turret shell
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
Ostreidae indet., "Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata, Crassostrea kiowana, Lopha kansasensis, Lopha subovata
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata Kues 1997 oyster
Crassostrea kiowana oyster
Lopha kansasensis oyster
Lopha subovata oyster | |
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Flaventia belviderensis venus clam | |