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Galatheoidea
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| Rank | superfamily (PBDB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Galatheoidea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classification (PBDB,GBIF) |
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| Status (PBDB) | extant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 265 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extant Size (PBDB) | 95 (36%) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 152 - 145 Ma Late Jurassic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | actively mobile (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vision | well-developed (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | carnivore (based on Decapoda) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | chitin (based on Malacostraca) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | G. A. Bishop. 1985. A new crab, Eomunidopsis cobbani n. sp. (Crustacea, Decapoda), from the Pierre Shale (Early Maastrichtian) of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology 59(3):601-604 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Chirostylidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 24 | 56.0 Ma Paleocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Galatheidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 119 | 152 Ma Late Jurassic | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Munididae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 21 | 47.8 Ma Eocene | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Munidopsidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 34 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Porcellanidae family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 57 | 99.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 0 Ma Extant | |
| Retrorsichelidae ✝ family | accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB) | 1 | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous | 83.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Synonymy List
| Year | Name and Author |
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| 1819 | Galatheoidea Samouelle |
| 1918 | Galatheidea Rathbun p. 134 |
| 1985 | Galatheoidea Bishop p. 601 |
| 1992 | Galatheoidea Feldmann and Keys p. 9 |
| 2003 | Galatheoidea Feldmann et al. p. 152 |
| 2006 | Galatheoidea Schweitzer et al. p. 24 figs. Table 1 |
| 2010 | Galatheoidea Schweitzer et al. |
| 2017 | Galatheoidea Luque et al. p. 8 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
