Galatheoidea

The Galatheoidea are a superfamily of decapod crustaceans comprising the porcelain crabs and some squat lobsters. Squat lobsters within the three families of the superfamily Chirostyloidea are not closely related to the squat lobsters within the Galatheoidea. The fossil record of the superfamily extends back to the Middle Jurassic genus Palaeomunidopsis.

Galatheoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AnomuraPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 154 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 347 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 347 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 347 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 75 of 347 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 37 of 347 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 30 of 347 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 347 occurrencesEocene — about 88 of 347 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 22 of 347 occurrencesMiocene — about 49 of 347 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 347 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 347 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–171 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences171–164 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences164–157 Mya — about 1 occurrence157–151 Mya — about 5 occurrences151–144 Mya — about 60 occurrences144–137 Mya — about 10 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences130–123 Mya — about 4 occurrences123–116 Mya — about 4 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–103 Mya — about 16 occurrences103–96 Mya — about 17 occurrences96–89 Mya — about 5 occurrences89–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–75 Mya — about 6 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–62 Mya — about 10 occurrences62–55 Mya — about 15 occurrences55–48 Mya — about 37 occurrences48–41 Mya — about 10 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 31 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 23 occurrences27–21 Mya — about 4 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 17 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 25 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 34 occurrences154.8 Mya11.7 ka205 Mya0 Mya

347 occurrences of Galatheoidea on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

347 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

54 formations

Ernstbrunn — 48.55°N, 16.36°EEguino — 42.88°N, 2.20°WPierre Shale — 40.92°N, 105.05°WPierre Shale — 40.77°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.72°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.03°WPierre Shale — 40.52°N, 105.07°WPierre Shale — 40.73°N, 105.17°WCastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°ECastelgomberto — 45.53°N, 11.48°EBasilika — 78.10°N, 14.53°EBasilika — 78.11°N, 14.60°EBasilika — 78.07°N, 14.28°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EZapotitlán — 18.42°N, 97.46°WPinczow — 50.47°N, 20.80°ERio Foyel — 41.73°S, 71.46°WRio Foyel — 41.72°S, 71.45°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.66°WGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EMoin — 9.99°N, 83.03°WPawpaw — 32.00°N, 97.00°WSanta Marta — 63.91°S, 57.81°WLakšárska Nová Ves — 48.59°N, 17.40°EDiscovery Point — 29.10°N, 118.25°WDiscovery Point — 28.97°N, 118.22°WHigashibessho — 36.74°N, 137.16°EHigashibessho — 36.65°N, 137.14°EMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°EYamami — 34.73°N, 136.91°EKambuhel — 47.75°N, 16.03°E

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The named rock units Galatheoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 193 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galatheoidea and its relatives

Eocene

Where Galatheoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,620 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 128 sites for Galatheoidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

93 references

Each of the 347 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 81 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Galatheoidea

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Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galatheoidea was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Samouelle 1819