Te Miko (Unit 4) (Eocene of New Zealand)
Where: New Zealand (42.0° S, 171.3° E: paleocoordinates 54.7° S, 179.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Island Sandstone Formation, Kaiatan (39.1 - 36.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; concretionary sandstone
• "shallow marine offshore, probably inner to middle shelf"
• alternating sandstone beds
Preservation: concretion, original calcite
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann and P. A. Maxwell. 1990. Late Eocene decapod Crustacea from north Westland, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology 64(5):779-797 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4887: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.08.1999, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "delicate branching, ramose, and fenestrate" bryozoans and "calcareous [polychaete] worm-tubes" not identified
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Echinoidea | |
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Taimanawa prisca Henderson 1975 heart urchin | |
Temnopleuridae indet. Agassiz 1872 sea urchin | |
Polychaeta | |
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850 | |
Gastropoda | |
Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. n. sp.
Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. n. sp. Mörch 1852 wentletrap | |
Bivalvia | |
Serripecten aff. tahuianus scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
? Terebratella sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Malacostraca | |
Lyreidus bennetti Feldmann and Maxwell 1990 crab |