Gross Creek West shores, a tributary to Indian Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as GCW

Where: Clinton County, Kentucky (36.8° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gnathodus texanus conodont zone, Fort Payne 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)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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, 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 165195: 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
Alloprosallocrinus conicus, Macrocrinus sp., Abatocrinus grandis, Uperocrinus robustus, Uperocrinus nashvillae, Magnuscrinus kammeri, Magnuscrinus praegravis, Eretmocrinus magnificus
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Uperocrinus robustus Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
Uperocrinus nashvillae Hall 1858 Sea lily
Magnuscrinus kammeri Krivicich et al. 2013 Sea lily
Magnuscrinus praegravis Miller 1892 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites gibsoni
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus spp., Agaricocrinus americanus, Agaricocrinus crassus, Dorycrinus gouldi
Agaricocrinus spp. Austin 1851 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Eucladocrinus millebrachiatus, Platycrinites hemisphaericus
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus stellatus, Barycrinus sculptus
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Holcocrinus "sp. 1"
Holcocrinus "sp. 1" Kirk 1945 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites iowensis