E6-2(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Ellsworth County, Kansas (38.6° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 55.9° 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

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 2043: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia microdonta
 Solenida - Pharidae
Leptosolen otterensis
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet.
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
 Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca subovata
Malacostraca
 Stomatopoda - Squillidae
Squilla kiowana
Squilla kiowana Scott 1970 mantis shrimp
common
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cytheridea sp.
Cytheridea sp. Bosquet 1852 ostracod