Highway 61DW (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Hwy 61DW

Where: Cumberland County, Kentucky (36.7° N, 85.4° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.6° 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)

• formation-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 165201: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Granatocrinus granulatus Romer 1851 blastoid
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Uperocrinus nashvillae Hall 1858 Sea lily
Magnuscrinus praegravis Miller 1892 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Thinocrinus "lobate sp." Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Allagecrinacea - Catillocrinidae
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
 Sagenocrinida - Mespilocrinidae
 Sagenocrinida -
 Poteriocrinina - Decadocrinidae
Holcocrinus "sp. 2" Kirk 1945 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Costalocrinus cornutus Owen and Schumard 1850 Sea lily
Barycrinus spurius Hall 1868 Sea lily