Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae

Full reference: A. De Angeli and A. Garassino. 2006. New reports of decapod crustaceans from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia (NE Italy). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 147(2):267-294

Parent taxon: Galatheidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also De Angeli and Garassino 2006

Sister taxa: Acanthogalathea, Allogalathea, Austromunida, Bolcagalathea, Cretagalathea, Eomunidopsis, Galathea, Galatheinae, Gastrosacus, Lessinigalathea, Luisogalathea, Munidopsinae, Munitheites, Palaeomunida, Paramunida, Phylladiorhynchus, Raymunida, Shinkaia, Shinkaiinae, Spathagalathea, Tethysgalathea

Subtaxa: Calteagalathea friulana

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Type: Calteagalathea friulana

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Val Caltea (Cretaceous of Italy)

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