Galeolaria
Galeolaria is a genus of coastal tube-building annelid fanworms in the family Serpulidae, found from southern Queensland, to New Zealand and southern Australian shores, to Western Australia.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SerpulimorphaPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
- Motility
- stationary, epibiontPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Polychaeta
- Environment
- marine,brackishPBDB, for Serpulimorpha
Time the record covers
At least 66 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 132.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 125.77 Mya.
8 occurrences of Galeolaria on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
8 occurrencesThese 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.
Galeolaria and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Galeolaria and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
167 taxa- Serpula8 sites
- Arca7 sites
- Astarte7 sites
- Cardium7 sites
- Pleurotomaria7 sites
- Ammonoidea6 sites
- Cymatoceras neocomiense6 sites
- Cymatoceras pseudoelegans6 sites
- Diplopodia (Pseudodiadema)6 sites
- Eurotrigonia caudata6 sites
- Holaster6 sites
- Holectypus6 sites
- Homoeorhynchia acuta6 sites
- Janita6 sites
- Lamellaerhynchia rostriformis6 sites
- Multizonopora6 sites
- Nucula simplex6 sites
- Ostrea6 sites
- Panopea6 sites
- Pholadomya elongata6 sites
- Pseudodiadema rotulare6 sites
- Terebratula6 sites
- Toxaster6 sites
- Trigonia carinata6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Galeolaria, 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
2 references- Jura Vaudois et Neuchatelois6
- Etude géologique et paléontologique des environs de St-Ambroix (Gard). Première partie (Houiller, Trias, Infralias)2
Each of the 8 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 content1
Picture of Galeolaria
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Internet Archive Book Images
- Licence
- No restrictions
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Galeolaria 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Galeolaria”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSerpulimorpha through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.