Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae
Alternative combinations: Eomunidopsis cretacea, Luisogalathea cretacea
Belongs to Galathea according to A. A. Klompmaker et al. 2022
See also Bishop 1985, Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Vega et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Galathea (Acanthogalathea), Galathea affinis, Galathea antiqua, Galathea australiensis, Galathea berica, Galathea caporiondoi, Galathea dispersa, Galathea hexacristata, Galathea keiji, Galathea keijii, Galathea lovarica, Galathea lupiae, Galathea magnifica, Galathea mainensis, Galathea munidoides, Galathea sahariana, Galathea squamifera, Galathea strigifera, Galathea strigosa, Galathea subsquamata, Galathea valmaranensis, Galathea weinfurteri, Galathea whiteleggii
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Watauga Decapods (Cretaceous of Texas)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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