Gross Creek West shores, a tributary to Indian Creek: 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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1 specimen | ||||||
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Platycrinites hemisphaericus
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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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3 specimens | ||||||
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Alloprosallocrinus conicus
Casseday and Lyon 1862
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40 specimens | ||||||
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Abatocrinus grandis
(Lyon and Casseday 1859)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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Magnuscrinus praegravis
(Miller 1892)
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11 specimens | ||||||
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Magnuscrinus kammeri
Krivicich et al. 2013
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Eretmocrinus magnificus
Lyon and Casseday 1859
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8 specimens | ||||||
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Uperocrinus robustus
(Wachsmuth and Springer 1897)
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Uperocrinus nashvillae
(Hall 1858)
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34 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Coelocrinidae
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Dorycrinus gouldi
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3 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus spp.
Austin 1851
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83 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus americanus
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51 specimens | ||||||
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Agaricocrinus crassus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Monobathrida
- Actinocrinitidae
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Actinocrinites gibsoni
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28 specimens | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Diplobathrida
- Rhodocrinitidae
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Gilbertsocrinus tuberosus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Botryocrinidae
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Barycrinus stellatus
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6 specimens | ||||||
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Barycrinus sculptus
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Poteriocrinina
- Decadocrinidae
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Holcocrinus informal sp. 1
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Crinoidea
- Cyathocrinida
- Cyathocrinitidae
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Cyathocrinites iowensis
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kentucky | County: | Clinton |
| Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 85.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.0° South, 53.2° 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 | ||||
| Local section: | Gross Creek | Local bed: | unnamed | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| 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: 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
| 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: | GCW | ||
| Database number: | 165195 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Wagner | Enterer: | P. Wagner |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 64 | ||
| Created: | 2015-01-14 15:30:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-14 15:30:00 |
| 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] |