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
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, adpression
Collection methods: Specimens in the Geology department of the University of Breslau
Primary reference: F. E. Zeuner. 1929. Platycleis pongraczi n. sp. (Orthopt.) aus dem Untermiozän von Radoboj in Kroatien. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 11:140-150 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123996: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Platycleis pongraczi n. sp.
Platycleis pongraczi n. sp. Zeuner 1929 katydid |