Where: Saline County, Kansas (38.7° N, 97.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 55.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kiowa Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• S5-1
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray, carbonaceous 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 2050: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Euspira smolanensis moon snail | |
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Mathilda sp. Semper 1865 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam | |
Corbula smolanensis clam | |
Flaventia belviderensis venus clam | |
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Trachycardium kansasense cockle
Protocardia texana cockle | |
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam | |
Pteria salinensis pearl oyster | |
Breviarca habita clam |