Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae

Full reference: H. Karasawa and H. Hayakawa. 2000. Additions to Cretaceous decapod crustaceans from Hokkaido, Japan-Part 1. Nephropidae, Micheleidae and Galatheidae. Paleontological Research 4(2):139-145

Parent taxon: Galatheidae according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023

See also Collins 2002, Karasawa and Hayakawa 2000, Schweitzer et al. 2010 and Vega et al. 2019

Sister taxa: Acanthogalathea, Allogalathea, Bolcagalathea, Eomunidopsis, Eosadayoshia, Galathea, Galatheinae, Lessinigalathea, Munidopsinae, Palaeomunida, Paramunida, Phylladiorhynchus, Tethysgalathea

Subtaxa: Luisogalathea tomitai

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Type: Luisogalathea tomitai

Ecology: epifaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at YEZ-19, Nakafutamatagawa, Haboro-cho (Cretaceous of Japan)

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