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

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Taxonomic list

• "delicate branching, ramose, and fenestrate" bryozoans and "calcareous [polychaete] worm-tubes" not identified
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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Taimanawa prisca
Taimanawa prisca Henderson 1975 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus
Schizaster (Paraster) exoletus Hutton 1873 heart urchin
S. (Paraster)
 Camarodonta - Temnopleuridae
Temnopleuridae indet.
Temnopleuridae indet. Agassiz 1872 sea urchin
Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. n. sp.
Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. n. sp. Mörch 1852 wentletrap
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Serripecten aff. tahuianus
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
? Terebratella sp.
? Terebratella sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
  -
Polychaeta indet.
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Lyreididae
Lyreidus bennetti
Lyreidus bennetti Feldmann and Maxwell 1990 crab