C3-8(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.3° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 57.9° 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: foreshore; gray, carbonaceous sandstone

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 2001: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites)
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) Spath 1931 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Ichnofossils -
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
rare