Galerites albogalerus

Wahl · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- GaleritesPBDB
- Diet
- detritivorePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Holectypoida
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holectypoida
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Echinoidea
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Echinodermata
Time the record covers
At most 35 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Galerites albogalerus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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.
Galerites albogalerus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Galerites albogalerus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Discoides1 site
- Galerites subrotunda1 site
- Lamna1 site
- Orbirhynchia mantelliana1 site
- Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Galerites albogalerus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 Galerites albogalerus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Wahl
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Galerites albogalerus 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 itGalerites through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leske 1778)