Also known as Maynes Creek crinoid association

Where: Marshall County, Iowa (42.0° N, 92.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.5° S, 37.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maynes Creek Formation, Kinderhookian (358.9 - 352.0 Ma)

• "a single stratigraphic bed and locality"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal grainstone and dolomitic mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: material is in the Beloit College Bean Collection

Primary reference: F. J. Gahn and T. K. Baumiller. 2004. A bootstrap analysis for comparative taphonomy applied to Early Mississippian (Kinderhookian) crinoids from the Wassonville Cycle of Iowa. Palaios 19(1):17-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73163: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.06.2007

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