Fort Payne Fm., Harmon Creek locality, H4-E.7, Wayne Co., KY (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.2° S, 32.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Payne Chert Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Lower Mississippian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, phosphatic, green, silty shale and packstone

• The green clay shale facies at this location represent the middle to upper part of a carbonate (wackestone) buildup.

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: W. A. Norris. 1991. Paleoecology and Paleocommunity Analysis of Green Shale Faunas from the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian) of South-central Kentucky and North-central Tennessee. 1-226 [A. Miller/A. Webber/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2675: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Andrew Webber on 14.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Echinoderms and other fauna are given in two separate appendices. All echinoderms are listed as present/absent.
Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified
  -
spiriferidines indet., Echinodermata indet.
Crinoidea
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus sp.
Halysiocrinus sp. Ulrich 1886 Sea lily
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet., Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"indet. bilaminate" - originally entered as "Bryozoa indet. bilaminate"
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
"indet. ramose" - originally entered as "Bryozoa indet. ramose"
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp.
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchoporidae
Rhynchopora sp.
Rhynchopora sp. King 1865
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
Punctospirifer sp.
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sp.
Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella sp.
Schuchertella sp. Girty 1904
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Ovatia sp.
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhytiophora sp.
 Productida - Productidae
Marginatia sp.
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Quadratia sp.
Quadratia sp. Muir-Wood and Cooper 1960
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Australosutura sp.
Australosutura sp. Campbell and Goldring 1960 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp.
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"indet. spicules" - originally entered as "Porifera indet. spicules"