Talk:Galene (crab)
Add topicOccurrence
[edit]Southwest Asia; India, Bangladesh, Thailand, China, Australia, New Zealand and Iran (fossil)
Fossil record
[edit]Fossils of Galene are found in marine strata from the Langhian to Quaternary (age range: from 15.97 to 0.012 million years ago.). Fossils are known from Iran, Malaysia, New Zealand and Taiwan. Recently, a new species of this crab named Galene dashtbani one of the oldest descendants of this genus, which is about 15 million years old, has been identified from Iran.