Malacostraca - Decapoda - Axiidae
Alternative combination: Plioaxius texensis
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 Axius according to C.E. Schweitzer et al. 2023
See also Franţescu 2014
Sister taxa: Axius armatus, Axius fontannesi, Axius hofstedtae, Axius lineadactylus, Axius reticulatus, Axius serratus, Axius stirhynchus
Type specimen: USNM 558715, a carapace. Its type locality is Motorola plant, west of intersection of N. Beach and Fossil Creek Blvd, which is in an Albian offshore shale in the Pawpaw Formation of Texas.
Ecology: infaunal detritivore
Distribution: found only at Motorola plant, west of intersection of N. Beach and Fossil Creek Blvd
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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