Seventy-six Falls (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as 76 Falls; SSF

Where: Clinton County, Kentucky (36.8° N, 85.2° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Gnathodus texanus conodont zone, Fort Payne Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal packstone

• Sheetlike packestone. Crinoidal packstone. Sheetlike layers with graded bedding

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: E. B. Krivicich, W. I. Ausich, and D. L. Meyer. 2014. Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 88(6):1154-1162 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165192: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Crinoids only
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Abatocrinus "n. sp." Lane 1963 Sea lily
Abatocrinus steropes Hall 1859 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus ramulosus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Uperocrinus robustus Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Uperocrinus nashvillae Hall 1858 Sea lily
Magnuscrinus praegravis Miller 1892 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus spp. Austin 1851 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
 Poteriocrinina - Poteriocrinitidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata -
Deliablastus cumberlandensis Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid