Swan Pond Buildup on high bluffs overlooking Cumberland River (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as SWPD

Where: Clinton County, Kentucky (36.8° N, 85.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 34.0° S, 53.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gnathodus texanus conodont zone, Fort Payne Formation, Osagean (352.0 - 343.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; wackestone

• Wackestone buildups. Domal shaped with a green shale core covered by carbonate mud, with carbonate mud the dominant lithology.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165243: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Crinoids only
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Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Xyeleblastus magnificus
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus