Eastern side of the mouth of Harmon Creek (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as HC

Where: Wayne County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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 wackestone

• Wackestone buildups. Domal shaped with a green shale core covered by carbonate mud, with carbonate mud the dominant lithology.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

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 165244: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Crinoids only
Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Deliablastus cumberlandensis Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Granatocrinus granulatus Romer 1851 blastoid
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites spp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Thinocrinus lowei Hall 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus spurius Hall 1868 Sea lily
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae