Nada Mbr, Borden Fm., Locality 2 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Kentucky (38.3° N, 83.4° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 31.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nada Member (Borden Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Nada can be no older than Tn3b and is probably Tn3c (uppermost Tournasian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; lithified, green shale and lithified, silty mudstone

• gray greenish shales interbedded with silty mudstones and siltstones

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: K.G. Lee, W. I. Ausich, and T.W. Kammer. 2005. Crinoids from the Nada Member of the Borden Formation (Lower Mississippian) in eastern Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 79(2):337-355 [S. Peters/S. Peters]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65686: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Shanan Peters on 24.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
 Cyathocrinida - Barycrinidae
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Uperocrinus pyriformis Shumard 1855 Sea lily
Aorocrinus nodulus n. sp. Sea lily
Macrocrinus konincki Shumard 1855 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus planoconvexus Hall 1861 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae