Celina, Fort Payne Formation, TN (Carboniferous to of the United States)

Where: Clay County, Tennessee (36.6° N, 85.5° W: paleocoordinates 20.7° S, 33.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gnathodus texanus conodont zone, Fort Payne Chert Formation, Chadian to Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• JA: originally entered as late Osagean; falls entirely within the Gnathodus texanus zone (Ausich and Meyer 1990), which in turn is Chadian to Arundian (Work and Mason 2004)

Environment/lithology: marineshelly/skeletal, green

• crinoids collected from one of four facies within the fort payne; at this locality, the facies is fossiliferous green shale facies

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich and D. L. Meyer. 1992. Crinoidea Flexibilia (Echinodermata) from the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian; Kentucky and Tennessee). Journal of Paleontology 66(5):825-838 [A. Miller/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6207: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.02.2000

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Taxonomic list

• only taxa corresponding with locality information included in the appendix to the paper were entered into the database (several taxa were listed as additional Fort Payne species, but no specific locality information was available)
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Crinoidea
 Flexibilia -
Metichthyocrinus clarkensis