Where: McPherson County, Kansas (38.5° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° N, 55.8° 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: shoreface; gray 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 2032: 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 | |
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Euspira smolanensis moon snail | |
Aporrhaidae indet. Gray 1850 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula cf. rivulana nut clam "sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
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Gervillia mudgeana oyster | |
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata Kues 1997 oyster
Ostrea arcuata oyster
Ostrea rugosa Smith 1817 oyster | |
Cucullaea recedens clam
Cucullaea herculea clam | |
Protocardia texana cockle
Trachycardium kansasense cockle | |
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"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam |