Axelia

{{Short description|Extinct genus of coelacanths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|fossil_range = {{fossilrange|251.2|250|early Olenekian}}

| taxon = Axelia

| authority = Stensiö, 1921

| type_species = {{extinct}}Axelia robusta

| type_species_authority = Stensiö, 1921

| subdivision_ranks = Other species

| subdivision = * {{extinct}}Axelia elegans Stensiö, 1921

}}

Axelia is an extinct genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish, which belonged to the family of Coelacanthidae. It lived during the Smithian (early Olenekian) age of the Early Triassic epoch in what is now Spitsbergen, Svalbard.{{cite journal |last1=Romano |first1=Carlo |last2=Koot |first2=Martha B. |last3=Kogan |first3=Ilja |last4=Brayard |first4=Arnaud |last5=Minikh |first5=Alla V. |last6=Brinkmann |first6=Winand |last7=Bucher |first7=Hugo |last8=Kriwet |first8=Jürgen |title=Permian-Triassic Osteichthyes (bony fishes): diversity dynamics and body size evolution |journal=Biological Reviews |date=2016 |volume=91 |issue=1 |pages=106–147 |doi=10.1111/brv.12161 |pmid=25431138 |s2cid=5332637 |url=https://hal.science/hal-01253154 }}{{Cite book |last=Stensiö |first=Erik |author-link=Erik Stensiö |title=Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen |year=1921 |publisher=Adolf Holzhausen |location=Vienna |pages=xxviii + 307 |doi=10.5962/bhl.title.159141|s2cid=83338211 |doi-access=free }} Fossils were found in the "Fish Niveau" of the Lusitaniadalen Member of the Vikinghøgda Formation.

Erik Stensiö named the genus after his brother Axel Andersson.