Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae
Full reference: O. D. Franţescu. 2014. Fossil mudshrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea) from the Pawpaw Formation (Cretaceous: Albian), northeast Texas, USA. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 40:13-22
Belongs to Axiopsis according to O. D. Franţescu 2014
Sister taxa: Axiopsis (Axiopsis), Axiopsis australiensis, Axiopsis eximia, Axiopsis mediterranea, Axiopsis pawpawensis, Axiopsis sampsonumae, Axiopsis werribee
Type specimen: USNM 558708, a carapace. Its type locality is Residential development off Harmon Road, which is in an Albian offshore shale in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas.
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Residential development off Harmon Road
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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