C4-2-5(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.2° N, 99.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 58.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kiowa Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic, gray shale

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 2002: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Repichnia sp.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet.
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
common - originally entered as "Ostreidae sp."
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp.
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
common
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Trachycardium kansasense
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" rare - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"