K1-8(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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 2011: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Mojsisovicsiidae
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites)
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) Spath 1931 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
 Neogastropoda -
Neogastropoda indet. Thiele 1929 snail
originally entered as "Neogastropoda sp."
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus kiowanus snail
originally entered as "Drepanochilus kiowanus"
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Botula carolinensis mussel
common
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea navia Gabb 1861 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp. demosponge
common