Seventy-six Falls: Osagean, Kentucky
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Blastoidea
- Granatocrinida
- Granatocrinidae
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Deliablastus cumberlandensis
Ausich and Meyer 1988
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Xyeleblastus magnificus
Ausich and Meyer 1988
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Platycrinitidae
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Eucladocrinus millebrachiatus
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Platycrinites hemisphaericus
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Batocrinidae
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Macrocrinus sp.
Jaekel 1895
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24 specimens | ||||||
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Alloprosallocrinus conicus
Casseday and Lyon 1862
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52 specimens | ||||||
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Abatocrinus informal n. sp.
Lane 1963
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Abatocrinus grandis
(Lyon and Casseday 1859)
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21 specimens | ||||||
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Abatocrinus steropes
(Hall 1859)
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Magnuscrinus praegravis
(Miller 1892)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Eretmocrinus magnificus
Lyon and Casseday 1859
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140 specimens | ||||||
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Eretmocrinus ramulosus
(Hall 1858)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Uperocrinus robustus
(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
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32 specimens | ||||||
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Uperocrinus nashvillae
(Hall 1858)
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Coelocrinidae
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Agaricocrinus americanus
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30 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus spp.
Austin 1851
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29 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus crassus
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Actinocrinitidae
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Actinocrinites gibsoni
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9 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Diplobathrida
- Rhodocrinitidae
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Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Botryocrinidae
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Barycrinus sculptus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Poteriocrinina
- Poteriocrinitidae
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Springericrinus magniventrus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Cyathocrinitidae
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Cyathocrinites iowensis
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Calceocrinida
- Calceocrinidae
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Halysiocrinus tunicatus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Catillocrinidae
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Catillocrinus tennesseeae
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Synbathocrinidae
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Synbathocrinus swallovi
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7 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Clinton |
| Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 85.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° South, 53.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal packstone |
| Lithology description: Sheetlike packestone. Crinoidal packstone. Sheetlike layers with graded bedding | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | OSU |
| Taxonomic list comments:Crinoids only | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | 76 Falls; SSF | ||
| Database number: | 165192 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 59 | ||
| Created: | 2015-01-14 11:34:50 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-14 11:34:50 |
| 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] |