Where: McPherson County, Kansas (38.6° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 55.8° 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 2027: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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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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Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
| Malacostraca | |
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