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A new occurrence of Granatocrinus granulatus (Roemer) from the Fort Payne Chert of Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Johnny A. Waters  and
Gorden L. Bell Jr.
Johnny A. Waters
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, West Georgia College, Carrollton 30118
Gorden L. Bell Jr.
Affiliation:
Red Mountain Museum, Birmingham, Alabama 35205
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The Mississippian was a time of widespread diversification of pelmatozoan echinoderms in the United States. The crinoids and blastoids were diverse and abundant in a variety of geologic settings. Most of the Osagean occurrences of blastoids are associated with platform carbonates such as the Burlington Limestone. These blastoids lived in association with a crinoid community dominated by camerate crinoids. Blastoids also lived in coeval Osagean deltaic environments such as the Borden Delta but were less diverse and abundant.

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Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , January 1986 , pp. 177 - 180
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Copyright © The Journal of Paleontology 

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