Spathagalathea minuta
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpathagalatheaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Porcellanidae
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Decapoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Malacostraca
- Vision
- well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 37.71 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Spathagalathea minuta on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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.
Spathagalathea minuta and its relatives
EoceneWhere Spathagalathea minuta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Palaeomunida defecta2 sites
- Acanthogalathea feldmanni1 site
- Acanthogalathea parva1 site
- Actaeites lobatus1 site
- Bericirinia bretoni1 site
- Bericocarcinus alontensis1 site
- Beripetrolisthes mulleri1 site
- Caporiondolus bericus1 site
- Eopalicus imbricatus1 site
- Eopetrolisthes striatissimus1 site
- Eumunida pentacantha1 site
- Galathea berica1 site
- Hepatiscus poverelli1 site
- Italialbunea lutetiana1 site
- Lobipetrolisthes blowi1 site
- Longoporcellana lobata1 site
- Notoporanina beyrichi1 site
- Orgianocarcinus bericus1 site
- Palaeomunida multicristata1 site
- Palinurellus bericus1 site
- Petrolisthes bittneri1 site
- Pisidia dorsosinuosa1 site
- Portunites eocaenica1 site
- Prototherium1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Spathagalathea minuta, 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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Spathagalathea minuta 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 Spathagalathea minuta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spathagalathea minuta 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 itSpathagalathea through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. de Angeli and Garassino 2002