Owen’s Branch Buildup, eastern side of the Indian Creek, Lake Cumberland: Osagean, Kentucky

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Batocrinidae
Macrocrinus sp. Jaekel 1895
3 specimens
Alloprosallocrinus conicus Casseday and Lyon 1862
6 specimens
Magnuscrinus praegravis (Miller 1892)
5 specimens
Eretmocrinus magnificus Lyon and Casseday 1859
1 specimen
Uperocrinus nashvillae (Hall 1858)
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Coelocrinidae
Agaricocrinus americanus
21 specimens
Agaricocrinus crassus
6 specimens
Crinoidea - Monobathrida - Actinocrinitidae
Actinocrinites informal fewer ridges sp. Miller 1821
2 specimens
Actinocrinites gibsoni
1 specimen
Thinocrinus informal lobate sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001
17 specimens
Thinocrinus informal many ridges sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001
1 specimen
Thinocrinus informal smooth sp. Ausich and Sevastopulo 2001
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
1 specimen
Crinoidea
Metichthyocrinus spp.
3 specimens
Crinoidea - Botryocrinidae
Barycrinus stellatus
4 specimens
Barycrinus rhombiferus
2 specimens
Barycrinus spurius (Hall 1868)
1 specimen
Costalocrinus cornutus (Owen and Schumard 1850)
2 specimens
Crinoidea - Cyathocrinida - Cyathocrinitidae
Cyathocrinites iowensis
1 specimen
Crinoidea - Calceocrinida - Calceocrinidae
Halysiocrinus tunicatus
4 specimens
Crinoidea - Catillocrinidae
Catillocrinus tennesseeae
7 specimens
Crinoidea - Synbathocrinidae
Synbathocrinus swallovi
13 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kentucky County:Clinton
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 85.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° South, 53.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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 Chert
Local section:Owens Branch Local bed:Lower
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 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)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green wackestone
Lithology description: Originally: crinoids collected from one of four facies within the fort payne; at this locality, the facies is wackestone buildup
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:OSU,USNM
Taxonomic list comments: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)
Metadata
Also known as:Owen's Branch; OBT
Database number:165194
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Subset of collection #:62
Created:2015-01-14 15:04:22 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2015-01-14 15:04:22
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]