Galathea weinfurteri

Galathea weinfurteri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GalatheaPBDB
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 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesOligocene — about 4 of 14 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 14 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 14 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–30 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 6 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.6–8.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.5–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.3–5.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences5.2–4.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.1–3.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.3 Mya7.246 Mya34.5 Mya2 Mya

14 occurrences of Galathea weinfurteri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

14 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

3 formations

Upper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°ECalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ECastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°E

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The named rock units Galathea weinfurteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galathea weinfurteri and its relatives

Miocene

Where Galathea weinfurteri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

250 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Galathea weinfurteri, 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

10 references

Each of the 14 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. 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 weinfurteri

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iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galathea weinfurteri 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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bachmeyer 1950