Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combination: Leda elongata
Full reference: I. Vaillant-Couturier Treat. 1933. Paléontologie de Madagascar. XIX - Le Permo-Trias Marin. Annales de Paléontologie 22:39-96
Belongs to Phestia according to M. E. Clapham 2015
See also Vaillant-Couturier Treat 1933
Sister taxa: Phestia basedowi, Phestia corrugata, Phestia darwini, Phestia guizhouensis, Phestia hunanensis, Phestia inflata, Phestia inflatiformis, Phestia jamesi, Phestia lusabaensis, Phestia nova, Phestia obtusa, Phestia pandoraeformis, Phestia perumbonata, Phestia rugodorsata, Phestia sabattinae, Phestia sinuata, Phestia speluncaria, Phestia subacuta, Phestia thompsoni, Phestia undosa, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis
Type specimen: Its type locality is Ankitokazo region, which is in a Wuchiapingian coastal mudstone in the Lower Sakamena Formation of Madagascar
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution: found only at Ankitokazo region
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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