List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Blastoidea
- Granatocrinida
- Granatocrinidae
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Perittoblastus liratus
Ausich and Meyer 1988
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Ausich and Meyer 1988 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Platycrinitidae
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Eucladocrinus millebrachiatus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Batocrinidae
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Macrocrinus sp.
Jaekel 1895
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Alloprosallocrinus conicus
Casseday and Lyon 1862
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Magnuscrinus praegravis
(Miller 1892)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Eretmocrinus magnificus
Lyon and Casseday 1859
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Coelocrinidae
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Agaricocrinus americanus
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus crassus
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Botryocrinidae
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Barycrinus stellatus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Costalocrinus cornutus
(Owen and Schumard 1850)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Cyathocrinitidae
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Cyathocrinites iowensis
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Dendrocrinida
- Adinocrinidae
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Adinocrinus nodosus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Cumberland |
| Coordinates: | 36.7° North, 85.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.1° South, 53.8° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Payne Chert | ||||
| Local section: | Highway 61 S | Local bed: | Unnamed | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| 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: | shelly/skeletal packstone |
| Lithology description: crinoids collected from one of four facies within the fort payne; at this locality, the facies is sheetlike packestone | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
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: | Hwy 61B | ||
| Database number: | 165199 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-01-14 20:34:24 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-14 20:34:24 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 39206 | W. I. Ausich and D. L. Meyer. 1988. Blastoids from the late Osagean Fort Payne Formation (Kentucky and Tennessee). Journal of Paleontology 62(2):269-283 [J. Alroy/D. Mathieson/D. Mathieson] |