just north of the Pleasant Hill Dock, western side of Caney Creek mouth (Carboniferous of the United States)

Also known as Pleasant Hill; PH

Where: Russell County, Kentucky (37.0° N, 85.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.9° S, 53.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• JA: originally entered as late Osagean; falls entirely within the Gnathodus texanus zone (Ausich and Meyer 1990), which in turn is Chadian to Arundian (Work and Mason 2004)

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•Changed back to Osagean (PJW).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal wackestone

• crinoids collected from one of four facies within the fort payne; at this locality, the facies is wackstone buildup

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

Primary reference: W. I. Ausich and D. L. Meyer. 1992. Crinoidea Flexibilia (Echinodermata) from the Fort Payne Formation (Lower Mississippian; Kentucky and Tennessee). Journal of Paleontology 66(5):825-838 [A. Miller/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6202: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.02.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• only taxa corresponding with locality information included in the appendix to the paper were entered into the database (several taxa were listed as additional Fort Payne species, but no specific locality information was available)
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Blastoidea
 Granatocrinida - Granatocrinidae
Xyeleblastus magnificus
Xyeleblastus magnificus Ausich and Meyer 1988 blastoid
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinites hemisphaericus, Eucladocrinus millebrachiatus
 Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Thinocrinus "lobate sp.", Actinocrinites gibsoni
Thinocrinus "lobate sp." Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus spp., Agaricocrinus americanus, Agaricocrinus crassus
Agaricocrinus spp. Austin 1851 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Eretmocrinus ramulosus, Eretmocrinus magnificus, Abatocrinus grandis, Macrocrinus sp., Alloprosallocrinus conicus
Eretmocrinus ramulosus Hall 1858 Sea lily
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Abatocrinus grandis Lyon and Casseday 1859 Sea lily
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895 Sea lily
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
 Flexibilia -
Metichthyocrinus clarkensis
 Cyathocrinida - Euspirocrinidae
? Parisocrinus sp.
? Parisocrinus sp. Wachsmuth and Springer 1880 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites iowensis
 Dendrocrinida - Adinocrinidae
Adinocrinus sp.
Adinocrinus sp. Kirk 1938 Sea lily
 Cladida - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus stellatus, Barycrinus sculptus
 Belemnocrinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
 Allagecrinacea - Catillocrinidae
Catillocrinus tennesseeae
 Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus