S6(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Modiolus sp. A"
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata Kues 1997 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria salinensis pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus kiowanus snail
originally entered as "Drepanochilus kiowanus"
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Engonoceras belviderense Cragin 1894 ammonite