Malacostraca - Decapoda - Hexapodidae

Full reference: J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen. 1992. Upper Cretaceous - Lower Tertiary crustaceans from West Greenland. Grønlands Geologiske Undersøgelse Bulletin 162:1-46

Belongs to Pinnixa (Palaeopinnixa) according to J. S. H. Collins and H. Wienberg Rasmussen 1992

See also Armstrong et al. 2009, Schweitzer and Feldmann 2001, Schweitzer et al. 2010, Vega et al. 2001 and Vega et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Palaeopinnixa alontensis, Palaeopinnixa eocenica, Palaeopinnixa granulosa, Palaeopinnixa heckeri, Palaeopinnixa intermedia, Palaeopinnixa mytilicola, Palaeopinnixa perornata, Palaeopinnixa prima, Palaeopinnixa rathbunae, Palaeopinnixa rocaensis, Palaeopinnixa rotunda, Pinnixa (Palaeopinnixa) mytilicola

Type specimen: MGUH 21.614, a carapace

Ecology: epifaunal carnivore

Distribution: found only at Sonja Lens, Agatdalen, Nugssuaq (Paleocene of Greenland)

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