M3-3(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897
92 specimens
Gastropoda - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. FĂ©russac 1822
2 specimens
originally entered as "Ampulina sp."
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhaidae indet. Gray 1850
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira smolanensis
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca subovata
19 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818
20 specimens
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia microdonta
1 specimen
Scaphopoda - Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus praetenuis
5 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:3
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:2029
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-16 12:16:20 Last modified:2017-07-04 17:33:45
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-16 12:16:20
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]