M8(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella belviderei
Cragin 1897
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43 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella semicostata
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Corbulidae indet.
Lamarck 1818
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12 specimens | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Corbulids sp." | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Flaventia belviderensis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cyprimeria kiowana
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Trachycardium kansasense
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19 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea kiowana
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80 specimens | |||||||||
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Scaphopoda
- Gadilida
- Gadilidae
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Cadulus praetenuis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | McPherson |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 97.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° 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: | 2037 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-06-16 13:38:38 | Last modified: | 2017-07-27 17:47:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-06-16 13:38:38 |
| 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] |