Where: Kiowa County, Kansas (37.4° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 57.3° 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: transition zone or lower shoreface; graded conglomerate
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 2009: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaea corrugata oyster
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster | |
Cyprimeria kiowana venus clam | |
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Cardita belviderensis Cragin 1894 clam |