Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combinations: Leda stevensiana, Phestia stevensiana
Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1910. New genera and species of Carboniferous fossils from the Fayetteville shale of Arkansas. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 20(3):189-238
Belongs to Polidevcia according to R. D. Hoare 2007
See also Girty 1910, Hoare 1993 and Pojeta 1969
Sister taxa: Polidevcia abrupta, Polidevcia aequilata, Polidevcia antequadrata, Polidevcia arata, Polidevcia arctura, Polidevcia bellistriata, Polidevcia bicarinata, Polidevcia browni, Polidevcia cryptica, Polidevcia flexuosa, Polidevcia kasanensis, Polidevcia kolyvanica, Polidevcia lunulata, Polidevcia lyonsensis, Polidevcia magna, Polidevcia nodulosa, Polidevcia obesa, Polidevcia ovata, Polidevcia sharmani, Polidevcia thomasi, Polidevcia tulcumbensis, Polidevcia vorgaschorica, Polidevcia zabaikalica
Type specimen: USNM 155906, a shell
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (8: Arkansas, Ohio, West Virginia collections)
Total: 8 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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