M3-1(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Stomatopoda - Squillidae
Squilla kiowana Scott 1970
rare
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana
1 specimen
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:McPherson
Coordinates: 38.6° North, 97.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 55.8° 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:M3 Local bed:1
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray carbonaceous "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2027
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-16 12:05:26 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:08
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:14
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]