Fort Payne - formation summary (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Georgia (34.7° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 29.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Payne Chert Formation, Carboniferous (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone and lithified chert

• ... limestone, massively bedded and containing geodes; in other areas the amount of chert has increased to about 50 percent and is in the form of nodules and thin beds intercalated with limestone; but perhaps the most typical and certainly the most easily recognized is the thin to massively bedded black chert

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: A. T. Allen and J. G. Lester. 1954. Contributions to the Paleontology of Northwest Georgia. Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin 62:1-166 [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164684: authorized by Steven Holland, entered by Steven Holland on 10.12.2014

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Delepinoceratidae
"Goniatites kentuckiensis" = Choctawites kentuckiensis
"Goniatites kentuckiensis" = Choctawites kentuckiensis Miller 1889 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
 Athyridida - Retziidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi, "Spirifer grimesi" = Mesochorispira grimesi
"Spirifer leidyi" = Anthracospirifer leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
"Spirifer grimesi" = Mesochorispira grimesi Hall 1858
Crinoidea
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites turbinatus tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Hadrophyllidae
Hadrophyllum ovale Bassler 1937 horn coral