Palaeosynaxes, Fraaije & van Bakel & Jagt & Krobicki & Ossó & Palero & Wallaard, 2023

Fraaije, René H. B., van Bakel, Barry W. M., Jagt, John W. M., Krobicki, Michał, Ossó, Àlex, Palero, Ferran & Wallaard, Jonathan J. W., 2023, A reconsideration of the palinuroid family Synaxidae (Crustacea, Decapoda), with a new member from the Upper Jurassic of southern Poland, Palaeontologia Electronica (a 19) 26 (2), pp. 1-9 : 4

Genus Palaeosynaxes nov.

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Type species. Palaeosynaxes montserratae nov. sp.

Etymology. From the Greek palaios for ‘old’, in reference to this being an early member of the family Synaxidae .

Diagnosis. Carapace small, oval, tubular; cervical groove V-shaped centrally; carapace densely covered with coarse, blunt, forwardly directed tubercles, most robust on two postrostral ridges on anterior part.