Wolf Creek-Caney Creek, southern edge of Ono Ridge: Osagean, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Platycrinitidae
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Eucladocrinus millebrachiatus
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Platycrinites hemisphaericus
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Dichocrinidae
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Paradichocrinus planus
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Batocrinidae
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Macrocrinus sp.
Jaekel 1895
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Alloprosallocrinus conicus
Casseday and Lyon 1862
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Abatocrinus informal n. sp.
Lane 1963
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Abatocrinus grandis
(Lyon and Casseday 1859)
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Magnuscrinus praegravis
(Miller 1892)
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Eretmocrinus magnificus
Lyon and Casseday 1859
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Eretmocrinus ramulosus
(Hall 1858)
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Uperocrinus robustus
(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
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Uperocrinus nashvillae
(Hall 1858)
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Coelocrinidae
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Agaricocrinus americanus
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Agaricocrinus spp.
Austin 1851
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Actinocrinitidae
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Actinocrinites gibsoni
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Crinoidea
- Sagenocrinida
- Mespilocrinidae
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Mespilocrinus romingeri
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Crinoidea
- Botryocrinidae
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Barycrinus rhombiferus
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Barycrinus sculptus
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Barycrinus stellatus
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Barycrinus spurius
(Hall 1868)
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Cyathocrinitidae
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Cyathocrinites iowensis
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Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
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Crinoidea
- Calceocrinida
- Calceocrinidae
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Halysiocrinus tunicatus
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Crinoidea
- Synbathocrinidae
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Synbathocrinus swallovi
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Russell |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 85.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° South, 53.0° 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 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Osagean |
| Key time interval: | Osagean | Conodont zone: | Gnathodus texanus |
| Age range of interval: | 351.9 - 343.1 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Payne Chert | ||||
| Local section: | Wolf Creek-Caney Creek | Local bed: | Unnamed | ||
| 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)
Changed by to Late Osagean | |||||
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: | marine indet. |
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 |
| 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: | Wolf Creek-Caney Fork; WCCF | ||
| Database number: | 6204 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller, P. Wagner | Enterer: | K. Layou, P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-02-08 08:15:53 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-02-08 08:15:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 391. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |