Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.3° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 58.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kiowa Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic, gray, carbonaceous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 1981: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 15.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek 1855 | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia microdonta clam | |
Trachycardium kansasense cockle | |
Scabrotrigonia emoryi Conrad 1857 clam | |
Breviarca habita clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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