Northeast highwall, Walker Brothers 213 quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Montgomery County, Kentucky (37.9° N, 83.9° W: paleocoordinates 14.6° S, 27.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Haney Member (Newman Formation), Chesterian (335.5 - 323.2 Ma)

• Haney Member of the Newman Limestone, 1.1 m (3.5 ft.) above its contact with the Reelsville-Beech Creek Member. The Haney Member is approximately middle Chesterian or Hombergian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, argillaceous packstone

• Interbedded packstone and shale suggests intermittent storms.
• Thin-bedded shaly limestones (packstones and wackestones)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Indiana University

Primary reference: F. R. Ettensohn. 1981. Crininicaminus haneyensis, a new agglutinated worm tube from the Chesterian of east-central Kentucky. Journal of Paleontology 55:479-482 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 206292: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 08.11.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Aphelocrinus sp.
Blastoidea
 Spiraculata - Pentremitidae
Pentremites elegans
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Dichocrinidae
Pterotocrinus sp.
Pterotocrinus sp. Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Acrocrinitidae
Acrocrinus sp.
Acrocrinus sp. Yandell 1855 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Camptocrinus sp.
Camptocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1897 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Pirasocrinidae
Dasciocrinus sp.
Dasciocrinus sp. Kirk 1939 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Agassizocrinidae
Agassizocrinus sp.
Agassizocrinus sp. Owen and Shumard 1852 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Zeacrinitidae
Tholocrinus sp.
Tholocrinus sp. Kirk 1939 Sea lily
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
Taxocrinus sp.
Taxocrinus sp. Phillips 1843 Sea lily
 Cladida - Phanocrinidae
Phanocrinus sp., Pentaramicrinus sp.
Phanocrinus sp. Kirk 1937 Sea lily
Pentaramicrinus sp. Sutton and Winkler 1940 Sea lily
 Ampelocrinida - Ampelocrinidae
Cymbiocrinus sp.
Cymbiocrinus sp. Kirk 1944 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Anthracospirifer cf. leidyi
Anthracospirifer cf. leidyi Norwood and Pratten 1855
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Archimedes sp.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
Zaphrentoides spinosus
 Ichnofossils -
Crininicaminus haneyensis n. gen. n. sp.
Crininicaminus haneyensis n. gen. n. sp. Ettensohn 1981