Alternative spelling: Galatheidea
Parent taxon: Anomura according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Bishop 1985, Collins and Wienberg Rasmussen 1992, De Angeli and Ceccon 2017, Feldmann and Keys 1992, Feldmann et al. 2003, Luque et al. 2017, Rathbun 1918, Robin et al. 2016, Schweitzer et al. 2006 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aegloidea, Cheramus, Chirostyloidea, Eocarcinoidea, Gastrodoroidea, Hippidea, Hippoidea, Kiwaoidea, Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea, Paguridea, Paguroidea, Retrorsichelidae, Venipaguroidea
Subtaxa: Catillogalatheidae Galatheidae Munididae Munidopsidae Ovocarcinus Paragalatheidae Porcellanidae
Type: Galathea
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (3), Panama (1), United States (6: Califormia, California, Flrida, Pennslyvania, Virgin Islands)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Costa Rica (1), Fiji (2), Italy (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Miocene of Argentina (2), Austria (2), Denmark (2), Hungary (11), Italy (1), Japan (7), Malta (1), Poland (2), Slovakia (1), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Oligocene of Italy (8), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Italy (17), Mexico (1), Tonga (1), United States (2: Washington)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Denmark (3), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Denmark (1), France (4), Italy (1), Japan (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), Slovenia (1), Spain (10), United States (10: Colorado, Texas)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (2), Poland (1), Romania (8), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 151 collections including 344 occurrences