Highway 61N (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Hwy 61N

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 165202: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Deliablastus cumberlandensis Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Allagecrinacea - Catillocrinidae
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae