Exposures across lake from Barren Lake State Dock (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Barren County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 86.1° W: paleocoordinates 22.8° S, 34.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Payne Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal wackestone

• laterally isolated facies with a positive topographic relief during deposition

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU, USNM

Primary reference: E. C. Rhenberg, W. I. Ausich, and D. L. Meyer. 2016. Actinocrinitidae from the Lower Mississippian Fort Payne Formation of Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama (Crinoidea, ViseĢan). Journal of Paleontology 90(6):1148-1159more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235974: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 30.08.2024

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Thinocrinus aff. gibsoni
Thinocrinus aff. gibsoni Miller and Gurley 1893 Sea lily