M8(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: McPherson County, Kansas (38.4° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 55.9° 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 2037: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 16.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell