Also known as Reef 274

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Late Osagean

•JA: the late Osagean is late Chadian according to Kammer and Ausich 2007

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich and D. L. Meyer. 1990. Origin and composition of carbonate buildups and associated facies in the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian, south-central Kentucky): an integrated sedimentologic and paleoecologic analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin 102:129-146 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76446: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2007

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