Malacostraca - Decapoda - Galatheidae
Parent taxon: Galatheoidea 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, Karasawa 1993, Klompmaker et al. 2022, Luque et al. 2017, Martin and Davis 2001, Schweitzer et al. 2006, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2008 and Schweitzer et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Catillogalatheidae, Munididae, Munidopsidae, Ovocarcinus, Paragalatheidae, Porcellanidae
Subtaxa: Acanthogalathea Allogalathea Bolcagalathea Eomunidopsis Eosadayoshia Galathea Galatheinae Lessinigalathea Luisogalathea Munidopsinae Palaeomunida Paramunida Phylladiorhynchus Tethysgalathea
Type: Galathea
Ecology: epifaunal detritivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Italy (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Belgium (1), Italy (1)
• Miocene of Austria (2), Hungary (6), Japan (1), Malta (1), Ukraine (1)
• Neogene of Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (6)
• Eocene of Italy (14), Mexico (1)
• Paleocene of Greenland (1)
• Paleogene of Hungary (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), France (1), Japan (3), Mexico (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Spain (6), United States (10: Colorado, Texas)
• Jurassic of Romania (3), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 66 collections including 106 occurrences