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Palaeoneilo galatea

Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae

Taxonomy

Leda galatea was named by d'Orbigny (1850).

It was recombined as Mesosaccella galatea by Berndt (1998); it was recombined as Palaeoneilo galatea by Gu et al. (1976), Chen (1982), Gahr (2002).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

P. amosi, P. anthraconeiloides, P. antigonishensis, P. antiqua, P. arcuata, P. arenacea, P. barrisi, P. bedfordensis, P. beushauseni, P. brevis, P. concentrica, P. congregata, P. constrictiformis, P. distincta, P. elliptica, P. elliptica, P. elongata, P. farbesi, P. flectens, P. flectens, P. fujinohira, P. hulukouensis, P. humenryi, P. ignota, P. indicus, P. insignis, P. iwaiensis, P. laevirostris, P. laevirostrum, P. luciniforme, P. lunaris, P. magnifica, P. maureri, P. minutissima, P. muensteri, P. muta, P. nanimensis, P. orbignyi, P. ovata, P. parvaradiatus, P. patagonidica, P. penekei, P. phillipsi, P. plana, P. planiformis, P. praecursor, P. praecuta, P. primaeva, P. prynadai, P. rhysa, P. rudis, P. sakuradaniensis, P. sancticrucis, P. sharmani, P. sinuosa, P. sinuosus, P. socialis, P. subantiqua, P. sulcatina, P. taffiana, P. telliniformis, P. tenuistriata, P. truncata, P. unionoides, P. antiqua, P. arcuata, P. augusta, P. brevis, P. clarkei, P. contracta, P. crassa, P. elongata, P. maxima, P. muta, P. petila, P. plana, P. rudis, P. subantiqua, P. tenuistriata

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1850	Leda galatea d'Orbigny
1976	Palaeoneilo galatea Gu et al. p. 24 figs. Pl 43, figs 3,4
1982	Palaeoneilo galatea Chen p. 405 figs. Pl 1, figs 3,4
1998	Mesosaccella galatea Berndt
2002	Palaeoneilo galatea Gahr

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Bivalvia

Rank	Name	Author
—	Eubivalvia
subclass	Protobranchia	(Pelseneer 1889)
superorder	Nuculaniformii	Carter et al. 2000
order	Nuculanida	(Carter et al. 2000)
superfamily	Nuculanoidea	Adams and Adams 1858
family	Malletiidae	(Adams and Adams 1858)
genus	Palaeoneilo
species	galatea	(d'Orbigny 1850)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Palaeoneilo galatea d'Orbigny 1850

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Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

part	N	mean
valve height	1	5.89

Composition:

aragonitec

Entire body:

yesg

Adult length:

10 to < 100g

Adult width:

10 to < 100g

Locomotion:

facultatively mobilesuperf

Life habit:

infaunalsuperf

Diet:

deposit feedersuperf

Vision:

blindc

Created:

2009-06-05 12:34:01

Modified:

2009-06-05 14:34:01

Source: g = genus, superf = superfamily, c = class

References: Hendy 2009, Aberhan et al. 2004, Sanchez Roig 1926

Age range: base of the Hettangian to the top of the Middle Toarcian or 201.40000 to 180.40000 Ma

Collections (86 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Hettangian	201.4 - 199.5	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204161)
Hettangian	201.4 - 199.5	Denmark	Palaeoneilo galatea (142009)
Early/Lower Jurassic	201.4 - 174.7	Germany	Mesosaccella galatea (23813)
Bucklandi	199.5 - 192.9	China (Guangdong)	Palaeoneilo galatea (7778)
Bucklandi - Semicostatum	199.5 - 192.9	China (Guangdong)	Palaeoneilo galatea (150394)
Early/Lower Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	Denmark	Palaeoneilo galatea (142068 142069)
Late/Upper Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204130 204131 204132 204133)
Late/Upper Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	Denmark	Palaeoneilo galatea (142071 142072)
Sinemurian	199.5 - 192.9	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204146 204151)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204127 204128 204129)
Early/Lower Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Denmark	Palaeoneilo galatea (142076 142077)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia)	Palaeoneilo galatea (225396 225397)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Germany	Mesosaccella galatea (23624 23625 23626 23627 23812 23814 23815 23816 23817 23818 23839 23840 23841 23842 23843 23844 23845 23846 23847 23848)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204120)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Denmark	Palaeoneilo galatea (142078 142079 142080 142081 142082)
Late/Upper Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Germany (Bavaria)	Mesosaccella galatea (23849 23850 23851 23852 23853 23854 23855 23856 23857 23858 23859 23860) Palaeoneilo galatea (224862)
Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	United Kingdom (Gloucestershire)	Palaeoneilo galatea (204121 204122 204123 204124 204125)
Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Spain	Palaeoneilo galatea (211873)
Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	Argentina (Neuquen)	Palaeoneilo galatea (33869)
Pliensbachian	192.9 - 184.2	United Kingdom	Mesosaccella galatea (213633 213634 213643 213646 213655)
Spinatum	192.9 - 184.2	Germany	Palaeoneilo galatea (126569 159446)
Early/Lower Toarcian	184.2 - 182.9	United Kingdom	Mesosaccella galatea (213658)
Early/Lower Toarcian	184.2 - 182.9	Portugal	Palaeoneilo galatea (25952 25961 25963)
Early/Lower Toarcian	184.2 - 182.9	Spain	Palaeoneilo galatea (25612 25938 25942 26152 26322)
Toarcian	184.2 - 174.7	France	Mesosaccella galatea (51608)
Middle Toarcian	182.9 - 180.4	Portugal	Palaeoneilo galatea (25968)