Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae

Full reference: S. Bravi and A. Garassino. 1998. New biostratigraphic and palaeoecologic observations on the "Plattenkalk" of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) of Pietraroia (Benevento, S Italy), and its decapod crustaceans assemblage. Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 138(1-2):119-171

Parent taxon: Axiidae according to C. E. Schweitzer et al. 2010

See also Bravi and Garassino 1998

Sister taxa: Acanthaxius, Aperiopyxis, Axiopsis, Axius, Calocarides, Dorphinaxius, Etallonia, Magila, Megachela, Palaeoaxius, Paraxiopsis, Plioaxius, Protaxius, Schlueteria, Schluteria

Subtaxa: Huxleycaris beneventana

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Type: Huxleycaris beneventana

Ecology: infaunal detritivore

Distribution: found only at Le Cavere site, Pietraroia (Museo Napoli collection) (Cretaceous of Italy)

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