Galeodea megacephala
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GaleodeaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Cassidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Cassidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Cassidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Galeodea megacephala on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
1 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Galeodea megacephala has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Galeodea megacephala and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Galeodea megacephala and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
38 taxa- ? Boreotrophon capito deshayesi1 site
- Angaria scobina1 site
- Anomia ephippium1 site
- Arctica1 site
- Arrhoges (Pseudodiartema)1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Atrina pectinata1 site
- Brachidontes1 site
- Calliostoma (Ampullotrochus) hegeduesi1 site
- Cardita1 site
- Conus1 site
- Cordiopsis incrassata1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Cypraea1 site
- Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata1 site
- Discinisca steiningeri1 site
- Emarginula1 site
- Eucrassatella1 site
- Euspira helicina1 site
- Fasciolaria plexa1 site
- Ficus concinnus1 site
- Ficus conditus1 site
- Glossus1 site
- Glycymeris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Galeodea megacephala, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Galeodea megacephala was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Galeodea megacephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Galeodea megacephala 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itGaleodea through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Philippi 1843)