Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer, 1950

Wallaard, Jonathan J. W., Fraaije, René H. B., Van Bakel, Barry W. M., Jagt, John W. M. & Müller, Pál M., 2023, Miocene decapod crustacean faunas from Cyprus - Part 1. Geographical-stratigraphical setting and Anomura, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 38) 26 (3), pp. 1-14 : 6-7

Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer, 1950

Figure 6

1928 Galathea sp. Glaessner, page 164, 206, plate 3, figure 1

1950 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Bachmayer, page 135, plate 1, figure 2-4.

1953 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Bachmayer, page 242, 243 plate 5, figures 3, 4, 6.

1984a Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Müller, page 60, plate 21, figures 4, 5, plate 22, figures 1-5.

1996 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Müller, page 8.

2002 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Górka, page 528.

2002 Galathea cfr. G. weinfurteri Bachmayer – De Angeli and Garassino, page 10, figure 7.

2006 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Radwański et al., page 96-97, plate 2, figure 1.

2010 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Gatt and De Angeli, page 1326, plate 2, figure 4.

2010 Galathea sp. – Gatt and De Angeli, page 1326, text-figure 3, plate 2, figure 3.

2011 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Ossó and Stalennuy, figures 3.7, 3.13.

2014 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Collins, page 33, plate 1, figures 3, 4.

2014 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Hyžný et al., page 243-244, figures 1, 7A, plates 1-2.

2018 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Górka, page 515, text-figure 3.1.

2021 Galathea weinfurteri Bachmayer – Hyžný and Dulai, page 126, 128, figure 44.1-14

Material. 15 carapaces (MAB6669.1, 10868–

10870.1, 10871.1, 10872, 10873, 11851, 13498.2)

from Tochni; 12 carapaces (MAB9439, 9440,

9511.2, 9530.2, 9530.3, 11852, 11853) from

Maroni; 1 carapace (MAB10336) from Kamares; 2

carapaces (MAB9687.2, 10335) from Cap Greco;

38 carapaces (MAB10864–10866, 10867.2,

10897.3, 10931.2, 10932, 13501, 13503-13507,

13508.3, 13509.2) from Mitsero, 1 carapace

(MAB13488) from Podromi.

Locality and stratigraphy. Kamares, Podromi and

Cap Greco; Terra Limestone Member (Pakhna Formation, Aquitanian-Burdigalian); Tochni, Maroni and Mitsero; Koronia Limestone Member (Pakhna

Formation, late Serravallian-early Messinian).

Remarks. This common and widely distributed species has been recorded to date from Miocene levels in the Paratethys: Austria, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine – see Müller (1984a, b, 1993, 1996),

Radwański et al., (2006) and Ossó and Stalennuy

(2011), as well as from the Oligocene of northern

Italy (De Angeli et al., 2010), the Middle Miocene from France ( Ossó et al., 2022) and the Upper Miocene of Malta ( Gatt and De Angeli, 2010).

Figures

FIGURE 6. Carapace of Galathea weinfurteri (MAB11853). Scale bar is 2 mm.