Radoboj (Morlot Collection) (Miocene of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (46.2° N, 15.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmatian (12.7 - 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

Primary reference: O. Heer. 1853. Die Insektenfauna der TertiƤrgebilde von Oeningen und von Radoboj in Croatien. Dritte Theil: Rhynchoten 1-138 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122874: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
"Formica occultata" = Lasius occultatus
"Formica occultata" = Lasius occultatus Heer 1849 ant
 Hemiptera - Nabidae
"Nabis maculata" = Nabis maculatus
"Nabis maculata" = Nabis maculatus Heer 1853 true bug
 Hemiptera - Reduviidae
Harpactor gracilis n. sp. Heer 1853 assassin bug
 Hemiptera - Heterogastridae
Heterogaster redivivus n. sp. Heer 1853 true bug
 Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Lygaeites pusillus n. sp. Heer 1853 milkweed bug
 Hemiptera - Cydnidae
"Cydnopsis brevicollis" = Cydnus brevicollis
"Cydnopsis brevicollis" = Cydnus brevicollis Heer 1853 burrowing bug
 Hemiptera - Acanthosomatidae
Acanthosoma maculata n. sp. Heer 1853 shield bug
Acanthosoma morloti Heer 1853 shield bug
 Hemiptera - Pentatomidae
Neurocoris rotundatus Heer 1853 stink bug
Pentatoma morloti n. sp. Heer 1853 stink bug
 Hemiptera - Cicadellidae
Dictyophorites tingitinus n. gen. n. sp. Heer 1853 leafhopper
 Hemiptera -
Tettigometra debilis n. sp. Heer 1853 froghopper
 Hemiptera - Cercopidae
Cercopis rectelinea n. sp. Heer 1853 froghopper