E10(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Ellsworth County, Kansas (38.5° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.9° 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: shoreface; gray sandstone

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 2047: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
Scabrotrigonia emoryi Conrad 1857 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae