S9-4(Kiowa) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Saline County, Kansas (38.8° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 55.6° 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: offshore; glauconitic, gray, carbonaceous shale

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 2057: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 17.06.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Solenida - Pharidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897 turret shell
Malacostraca
 Stomatopoda - Squillidae
Squilla kiowana Scott 1970 mantis shrimp