Galeodea

Galeodea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Cassinae of the family Cassidae.^[1]

Galeodea Temporal range: Cretaceous - Quaternary PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Galeodea rugosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Tonnoidea
Family:	Cassidae
Genus:	Galeodea Link, 1807
Type species
Buccinum echinophorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Cassidaria Lamarck, 1816 Echinora Schumacher, 1817 Galeodea (Galeoocorys) Kuroda & Habe, 1957 † Galeodea (Mambrinia) J. Gardner, 1939 · accepted, alternate representation Galeoocorys Kuroda & Habe, 1957 Morio Montfort, 1810 † Taieria Finlay & Marwick, 1937

Fossil record

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Cretaceous period to the Quaternary period (age range: from 99.7 to 0.126 million years ago.). Fossil shells within this genus have been found all over the world.^[2]

Fossil of Galeodea tauroglobosa

Species

Species within the genus Galeodea include:

• † Galeodea aegyptiaca Oppenheim, 1906
• Galeodea alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1906)
• † Galeodea allani Finlay and Marwick, 1937
• †Galeodea apodemetes Marwick, 1934
• Galeodea bicatenata Sowerby I, 1815
• Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
• † Galeodea californica B. L. Clark, 1942
• † Galeodea depressa Buch, 1831
• Galeodea echinophora Linnaeus, 1758
• † Galeodea flemingi Beu & Maxwell, 1990
• † Galeodea geniculosa Marwick, 1942
• Galeodea hoaraui Drivas & Jay, 1989
• Galeodea keyteri (Kilburn, 1975)
• Galeodea koureos Gardner, 1939
• Galeodea leucodoma Dall, 1907
• Galeodea maccamleyi Ponder, 1983
• † Galeodea megacephala Philippi, 1843
• † Galeodea modesta (Suter, 1917)
• † Galeodea petersoni Conrad, 1854
• † Galeodea planotecta Meyer and Aldrich, 1886
• Galeodea plauta Beu, 2008
• Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)
• † Galeodea senex (Hutton, 1873)
• † Galeodea sulcata (Hutton, 1873)
• † Galeodea sutterensis Dickerson, 1916
• † Galeodea tetratropis Gain, Belliard & Le Renard, 2017
• Galeodea triganceae Dell, 1953
• †Galeodea wylliei Marwick, 1931

Species brought into synonymy

• Galeodea beui Kreipl & Alf, 2002: synonym of Galeodea alcocki (E.A. Smith, 1906)
• Galeodea carolimartini Beets, 1943 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
• Galeodea echinophorella Habe, 1961: synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
• Galeodea javana (K. Martin, 1879) †: synonym of Eudolium crosseanum (Monterosato, 1869) (Recombination of synonym)
• Galeodea marginalba Yamamoto & Sakurai, 1977: synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
• Galeodea nipponica (Sakurai & Habe in Habe, 1961): synonym of Galeodea alcocki (E. A. Smith, 1906)
• Galeodea noharai Noda, 1980 † : synonym of Galeodea bituminata (K. Martin, 1933)
• Galeodea postcoronata Sacco, 1890: synonym of Galeodea echinophora (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Galeodea susanae Schenck, 1926 †: synonym of Galeodea sutterensis Dickerson, 1916 †
• Galeodea tyrrhena (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Galeodea rugosa (Linnaeus, 1771)