Where: Saline County, Kansas (38.8° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 55.6° 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: shoreface; gray 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 2052: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata Kues 1997 oyster | |
Pteria salinensis pearl oyster | |
Gervillia mudgenana oyster | |
Trachycardium kansasense cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
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Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Engonoceras belviderense Cragin 1894 ammonite |