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 | |
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites)
"Adkinsites sp." = Oxytropidoceras (Adkinsites) Spath 1931 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam "sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
Nucula catherina nut clam | |
Cyprimeria kiowana venus clam
Flaventia belviderensis venus clam | |
Trachycardium kansasense cockle | |
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Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea navia Gabb 1861 oyster | |
Breviarca angulata clam | |
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell | |
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Demospongiae | |
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