Radoboj (Unger Collection) (Miocene of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (46.2° N, 15.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.1° N, 17.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Sarmatian (12.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Likely early Sarmatian (MN7) in age, based on foraminifera (Bajraktarevic, 1984) and siliceous microfossils (Galovic, 2003) from localities in the vicinity of Krapina.

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The deposits of Radoboj are marine deposits accumulated in a shallow epicontinental sea, possibly in a lagoon. In addition to insects, marine fish and algae have been found in Radoboj. The formation of the Pannonian Basin System commenced in the Early and the Middle Miocene as the consequence of the continental collision of the African (=Apulian) and European plates, and deposition in the entire basin was influenced by important extensional tectonics.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Reposited in the BMNH

• Heer did not view fossil, only the illustration by Unger. Fossil stated to be in the K.K. Court Chamber in the Coin and Mining Engineering at Vienna. At least "Gryllacris" ungeri was at the Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Vienna) in the 1930s, according to Karny (1932), but was at the BMNH by the late 1930s according to Zeuner (1939).

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1849. Die Insektenfauna der Tertiärgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Zweiter Theil: Henschrecken, Florfliegen, Aderflügler, Schmetterlinge und Fliegen 1-264 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 115307: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Orthoptera - Stenopelmatidae
"Gryllacris ungeri n. sp." = Macrelcana ungeri
"Gryllacris ungeri n. sp." = Macrelcana ungeri Heer 1849 jerusalem cricket
BMNH In.32783 (according to Zeuner, 1939)