Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Polidevciidae
Alternative combinations: Leda pandoraeformis, Polidevcia pandoraeformis
Full reference: R. P. Stevens. 1858. Description of new Carboniferous fossils from the Appalachia, Illinois and Michigan coal fields. American Journal of Science 25:258-265
Belongs to Phestia according to R. D. Hoare 2007
See also Driscoll 1965, Hoare 1993 and Stevens 1858
Sister taxa: Phestia basedowi, Phestia corrugata, Phestia darwini, Phestia elongata, Phestia guizhouensis, Phestia hunanensis, Phestia inflata, Phestia inflatiformis, Phestia jamesi, Phestia lusabaensis, Phestia nova, Phestia obtusa, Phestia perumbonata, Phestia rugodorsata, Phestia sabattinae, Phestia sinuata, Phestia speluncaria, Phestia subacuta, Phestia thompsoni, Phestia undosa, Phestia wortheni, Phestia zhejiangensis
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of United States (4: Ohio, West Virginia collections)
Total: 4 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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