Big Turbidite (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as BT

Where: Russell County, Kentucky (36.8° N, 85.1° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 33.4° 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 packstone

• sheetlike crinoidal packstone; Sheetlike layers with graded bedding.

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 165246: 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
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus sculptus
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus magnificus, Abatocrinus grandis
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily