K1-6B(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella belviderei
Cragin 1897
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20 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbulidae indet.
Lamarck 1818
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1 specimen | |||||||||
originally entered as "Corbulids sp." | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Cyprimeria kiowana
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita belviderensis
Cragin 1894
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaea corrugata
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Gryphaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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64 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Kiowa |
Coordinates: | 37.4° North, 99.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.0° North, 57.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 | *Epoch: | Gallic | *Local age/stage: | Comanchean |
Key time interval: | Albian | ||
Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,grading conglomerate | ||
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 2009 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-06-16 08:29:00 | Last modified: | 2017-07-04 17:30:59 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-06-16 08:29:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
52. | 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] |