Radoboj (BMNH Coll.) (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 class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression

Collected by C. von Ettingshausen in 1876-1877; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: A. Pongrácz. 1928. Die fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-fauna. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 25:91-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156759: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.05.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Syrphidae
Platycheirus haidingeri
Platycheirus haidingeri Heer 1849 hover fly
BMNH I.625 (probably Radoboj)
 Diptera - Mycetophilidae
"Exechia pulchella" = Mycetophila pulchella
"Exechia pulchella" = Mycetophila pulchella Heer 1849 fungus gnat
BMNH In. 19978
 Diptera - Bibionidae
Bibio moestus, "Bibio maculatus" = Bibio giganteus, "Mesomyia brevis" = Bibio brevis
Bibio moestus Heer 1849 march fly
BMNH In. 19976
"Bibio maculatus" = Bibio giganteus Unger 1841 march fly
BMNH Ettingshausen 52912
"Mesomyia brevis" = Bibio brevis Heer 1849 march fly
BMNH In. 19979
 Diptera -
Bibio batheri n. sp.
Bibio batheri n. sp. Pongrácz 1928 fly
BMNH In. 19974
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Lasius occultatus
Lasius occultatus Heer 1849 ant
BMNH In. 19975, 19977