Lake Cumberland area, crinoidal packstone buildups (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Reef 274

Where: Russell County, Kentucky (36.9° N, 85.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.1° S, 33.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Payne Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• Late Osagean

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Very poorly sorted crinoid-fenestrate bryozoan packstones, crinoidal grainstones and interbedded fossiliferous green shales. 15 m thick, more than 400 m lateral extent.

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 76447: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Cystodictyonidae
Cystodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Thamniscus sp. King 1849
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites "sp. B" Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus sp. Austin 1851 Sea lily
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus crassus McCoy 1847 tabulate coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836