Arm of Lily Creek: Osagean, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Catillocrinidae
Catillocrinus tennesseeae
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites asperrimus
1 specimen
Cyathocrinites farleyi
1 specimen
Cyathocrinites iowensis
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus spurius (Hall 1868)
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Sagenocrinida - Gaulocrinidae
Gaulocrinus veryi
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites informal fewer ridges sp. Miller 1821
1 specimen
Thinocrinus informal lobate sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001
4 specimens
Thinocrinus sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Uperocrinus robustus (Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
1 specimen
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859
4 specimens
Eretmocrinus ramulosus (Hall 1858)
1 specimen
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862
32 specimens
Magnuscrinus praegravis (Miller 1892)
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus
66 specimens
Agaricocrinus crassus
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Russell
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 85.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.1° South, 33.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1-2
Key time interval: Osagean Conodont zone:  Gnathodus texanus
Age range of interval: 351.9 - 343.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Payne
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: wackestone
Lithology description: Wackestone buildup; Carbonate mud with Domal shaped with a green shale core covered by carbonate mud.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: "wackestone buildup"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OSU,USNM
Metadata
Also known as:LC
Database number:165204
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:70
Created:2015-01-14 23:33:24 Last modified:2015-01-15 12:13:35
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-14 23:33:24
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

54014. E. B. Krivicich, W. I. Ausich, and D. L. Meyer. 2014. Crinoid assemblages from the Fort Payne Formation (late Osagean, early Viséan, Mississippian) from Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 88(6):1154-1162 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]