S9-3(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Saline County, Kansas (38.8° N, 97.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 55.7° 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: foreshore; 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 2056: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Engonoceratidae
Engonoceras belviderense Cragin 1894 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassiopidae
Cassiope sp. Coquand 1865 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Drepanocheilus kiowanus snail
originally entered as "Drepanochilus kiowanus"
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
"sp. A" - originally entered as "Modiolus sp. A"
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria salinensis pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
originally entered as "Ostreidae sp."
"Lopha quadriplicata" = Peilinia quadriplicata Kues 1997 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia kansasensis" = Linearis
"Linearia kansasensis" = Linearis tellin clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya sp. Agassiz 1843 clam
"sp. B" - originally entered as "Homomya sp. B"
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"Scabrotrigonia emoryi" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam
 Ichnofossils -
Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836
rare