Malacostraca - Decapoda - Paragalatheidae
Alternative spelling: Galathea (Paragalathea)
Full reference: L. Via Boada. 1981. Les Crustacés Décapodes du Cénomanien de Navarra (Espagne): premiers resultats de l’étude des Galatheidae. Géobios 14(2):247-251
Parent taxon: Paragalatheidae according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Bishop 1985, Muţiu and Bădăluţă 1971, Patrulius 1966, Robins et al. 2016, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Sepkoski 2002 and Vega et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Discutiolira, Lemacola, Mesogalathea
Subtaxa: Paragalathea africana Paragalathea arcella Paragalathea crenarvina Paragalathea ornatissima Paragalathea patrulius Paragalathea ternata Paragalathea ubaghsi Paragalathea verrucosa Paragalathea vultuosoma
Type: Paragalathea multisquamata
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Morocco (1 collection), the Netherlands (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Poland (1)
Total: 6 collections including 10 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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