E6-2(Kiowa): Albian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Stomatopoda - Squillidae
Squilla kiowana Scott 1970
common
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Cytheridea sp. Bosquet 1852
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella belviderei Cragin 1897
39 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818
3 specimens
originally entered as "Corbulids sp."
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Leptosolen otterensis
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Breviarca subovata
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana mutata
14 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia microdonta
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula cf. rivulana
3 specimens
"sp. cf. N. rivulana" - originally entered as "Nucula sp. cf. N. rivulana"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Ellsworth
Coordinates: 38.6° North, 98.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.9° North, 55.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
*Epoch:Gallic
*Local age/stage:Comanchean
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kiowa
Local section:E6 Local bed:2
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray carbonaceous "shale"
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:foreland basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:2043
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-06-17 06:30:19 Last modified:2017-07-27 17:49:13
Access level:the public Released:1999-06-17 06:30:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52. 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]