Galatheidae

The Galatheidae are a family of squat lobsters.

Galatheidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 149.2 Mya to 129 ka.

Late Jurassic — about 4 of 106 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 16 of 106 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 17 of 106 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 106 occurrencesEocene — about 39 of 106 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 13 of 106 occurrencesMiocene — about 13 of 106 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 106 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 106 occurrences152–147 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences147–142 Mya — about 3 occurrences142–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–101 Mya — about 9 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 5 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–81 Mya — about 4 occurrences81–76 Mya — about 4 occurrences76–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–56 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences56–51 Mya — about 15 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 10 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–30 Mya — about 11 occurrences30–25 Mya — about 6 occurrences25–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–10 Mya — about 8 occurrences10–5.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.1–0 Mya — about 3 occurrences145.06 Mya774 ka152 Mya0 Mya

106 occurrences of Galatheidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

106 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

18 formations

Pierre 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°WEguino — 42.88°N, 2.20°WCalcareniti di Castelgomberto — 45.43°N, 11.52°ECastelgomberto — 45.50°N, 11.40°ECastelgomberto — 45.58°N, 11.38°EUpper Coralline Limestone — 35.93°N, 14.33°EPawpaw — 32.00°N, 97.00°WZapotitlán — 18.42°N, 97.46°WBateque — 26.95°N, 113.06°WAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EPurbeck Limestone — 50.55°N, 2.43°WMegami — 34.70°N, 128.18°ELeitha Limestone — 47.83°N, 16.48°ELillo — 51.26°N, 4.21°ENigorikawa — 44.60°N, 142.05°EAgatdal — 70.58°N, 53.10°WArida — 34.04°N, 135.17°ECellina — 46.18°N, 13.26°E

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The named rock units Galatheidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 69 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galatheidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Galatheidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

975 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Galatheidae, 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

43 references

Each of the 106 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. 31 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 Galatheidae

Credit
Liné1
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Galatheidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Samouelle 1819