Western side of a large bend in the Greasy Creek arm (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as GRY

Where: Wayne County, Kentucky (37.0° N, 85.1° 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 165245: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Crinoids only
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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus magnificus
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Thinocrinus sp.
Thinocrinus sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinites hemisphaericus
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus rhombiferus
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites iowensis
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus