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
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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