S5-1(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

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
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus kiowanus snail
originally entered as "Drepanochilus kiowanus"
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Mathilda sp. Semper 1865 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria salinensis pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea rugosa Smith 1817 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae