M7(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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16 specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Eucyclidae
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Amberleya sp.
Morris and Lycett 1851
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1 specimen | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium kansasense
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8 specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea kiowana
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43 specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | McPherson |
Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 97.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 55.9° 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 |
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: | 2036 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-06-16 13:33:08 | Last modified: | 2017-07-27 17:47:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-06-16 13:33:08 |
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] |