Galathea

Galathea is a genus of squat lobsters in the family Galatheidae. It is one of the largest genera of squat lobsters that in 2008 contained 73 species. Most species of Galathea live in shallow waters.

Galathea

Matthias Buschmann (M.Buschmann) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 96 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 32 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 32 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 32 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 32 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 32 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences105–101 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences98–94 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences94–90 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–76 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences76–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences51–47 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 2 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 3 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 2 occurrences26–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–11 Mya — about 8 occurrences11–7.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.7–4.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.1–506 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences100.5 Mya3.6 Mya108 Mya506 ka

32 occurrences of Galathea on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

32 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

9 formations

Upper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WPawpaw — 32.00°N, 97.00°WMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ECastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ELillo — 51.26°N, 4.21°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°W

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The named rock units Galathea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galathea and its relatives

Miocene

Where Galathea and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

703 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Galathea, 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

22 references

Each of the 32 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. 10 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 Galathea

Credit
Matthias Buschmann (M.Buschmann)
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galathea 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGalatheidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fabricius 1793