Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae
Parent taxon: Galatheoidea according to A. A. Klompmaker et al. 2022
See also Bishop 1985, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, De Angeli and Ceccon 2017, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Karasawa 1993, Luque et al. 2017, Martin and Davis 2001, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aeglidae, Catillogalatheidae, Munididae, Munidopsidae, Ovocarcinus, Paragalatheidae, Porcellanidae, Retrorsichelidae
Subtaxa: Acanthogalathea Allogalathea Austromunida Bolcagalathea Calteagalathea Cretagalathea Eomunidopsis Galathea Galatheinae Gastrosacus Lessinigalathea Luisogalathea Munidopsinae Munitheites Palaeomunida Paramunida Phylladiorhynchus Raymunida Shinkaia Shinkaiinae Spathagalathea Tethysgalathea
Type: Galathea
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (1)
• Miocene of Argentina (1), Austria (1), Hungary (6), Japan (1), Malta (1), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (6)
• Eocene of Argentina (1), Italy (14), Mexico (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), France (1), Italy (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (7), United States (10: Colorado, Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Germany (1), Poland (1), Romania (6), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 77 collections including 126 occurrences