Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative spelling: Polidevciidae
Parent taxon: Polidevciidae according to M. A. Pagani and S. M. Ferrari 2011
See also Bouchet et al. 2010, Carter et al. 2011 and Ros-Franch et al. 2014
Sister taxon: Phestiinae
Subtaxa: Polidevcia Ryderia
Type: Phestia (Polidevcia)
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (2: Florida collections)
• Eocene of United States (20: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1)
• Jurassic of Canada (1: British Columbia), China (4), Denmark (11), France (2), Germany (6), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (10)
• Triassic of China (8), the United Kingdom (4)
• Leonard of United States (4: Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming)
• Permian of Australia (17), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (2), New Zealand (4), Peru (2), the Russian Federation (30), United States (67: Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming)
• Virgilian of United States (27: Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (18: Missouri, Oklahoma)
• Westphalian of Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Chesterian of United States (4: Arkansas, California, Ohio)
• Osagean of the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Peru (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (22: Arkansas, California, Kansas, Maryland, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia)
• Devonian of Australia (2)
Total: 282 collections including 304 occurrences