K1-8(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
common
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Botula carolinensis
common
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca angulata
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
31 specimens
Gryphaea navia Gabb 1861
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818
3 specimens
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium kansasense
19 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Flaventia belviderensis
6 specimens
Cyprimeria kiowana
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana
1 specimen
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
Nucula catherina
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
Adkinsites sp. Spath 1931
2 specimens
spelled with current rank as Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897
156 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929
1 specimen
originally entered as "Neogastropoda sp."
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus kiowanus
36 specimens
originally entered as "Drepanochilus kiowanus"
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kiowa
Local section:K1 Local bed:8
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
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:2011
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-16 10:11:27 Last modified:2016-07-20 16:17:27
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-16 10:11:27
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]