Owen’s Branch Buildup, eastern side of the Indian Creek, Lake Cumberland (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Owen's Branch; OBT

Where: Clinton County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• JA: originally entered as late Osagean; falls entirely within the Gnathodus texanus zone (Ausich and Meyer 1990), which in turn is Chadian to Arundian (Work and Mason 2004)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; green wackestone

• Originally: crinoids collected from one of four facies within the fort payne; at this locality, the facies is wackestone buildup

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

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 165194: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

• only taxa corresponding with locality information included in the appendix to the paper were entered into the database (several taxa were listed as additional Fort Payne species, but no specific locality information was available)
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Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Uperocrinus nashvillae, Macrocrinus sp., Alloprosallocrinus conicus, Eretmocrinus magnificus, Magnuscrinus praegravis
Uperocrinus nashvillae Hall 1858 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Magnuscrinus praegravis Miller 1892 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus, Agaricocrinus crassus
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites "fewer ridges sp.", Actinocrinites gibsoni, Thinocrinus "lobate sp.", Thinocrinus "many ridges sp.", Thinocrinus "smooth sp."
Thinocrinus "lobate sp." Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
Thinocrinus "many ridges sp." Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
Thinocrinus "smooth sp." Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus
 Disparida - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
 Disparida - Catillocrinidae
Catillocrinus tennesseeae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites iowensis
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus stellatus, Barycrinus rhombiferus, Barycrinus spurius, Costalocrinus cornutus
Barycrinus spurius Hall 1868 Sea lily
Costalocrinus cornutus Owen and Schumard 1850 Sea lily
 Flexibilia -
Metichthyocrinus spp.